Infinite Jest

those tiny sad architectural differences that seem to highlight the essential sameness,

A developed thought coheres: Ho’s voice has the quality of a type of: ointment.

socially hyperresponsible

He and Hal exchanged the very slight sorts of nods people use when they like each other past all need for politeness.

mise-en-scène

The cloudless sky above the east’s Mountains of Rincon range was the faint sick pink of an unhealed burn.

But Wallace does something weirder, something more astounding: even when you’re not reading him, he trains you to study the real world through the lens of his prose.

window. The man’s face falls into and out of amused expressions as he

en-scène