I caught a rather large flying cockroach in my sink with this container assuming that I could just starve it out. Unfortunately, these things can live for up to one month even without but as long as they have water.
Painted from a reference pic online but adapted the tv screen and VHS on top to give it an IJ theme. Calling it samizdat
My fave (not-main) character from IJ. Don't see enough fanart of her so I had to contribute!
Did anyone else instantly think of Mario's puppet show when the twist in Digger happened?
Basically at the end of Act 1 they reveal that the main story of the film is a futuristic stage play that satirizes an in-universe historical event. A lot of people's hangups with the film come from Innaratu giving himself an "out" in that the play is supposed to be way too on the nose and stupid so discordant elements are referred to as poetic licence or hack writing by Tom Cruise's character and others making the play-within-a-film. (Similar to how the footnotes explain some of the historical innacuracies in the puppet show. The formation of O.N.A.N. filtered through a parody of a parody.)
Ton Cruise shouting accusing the director of using shallow irony and sarcasm to hide from the horrifying events the play was based on also felt very Jest. Same with the 11 minutes into the future framing.
Think this idea of filtering historical events through the art of the time rather than explaining the boring historical facts is a weirdly underutilized method of conveying exposition. It tells you about how these events are viewed in the world of the story and the people who made the art. You guys have any other examples of a piece of media doing that?
The scenes of Jim as a kid are some of my favorite in the book. I don’t know what the general consensus is on those scenes. Do other people enjoy them as much?
Hey everyone! I’ve been wanting to read Infinite Jest for years, and I’ve finally set up a group of friends to book club it with. I was wondering, if anyone here has done an Infinite Jest book club, how did you guys go about it? What was your schedule like? Is there a particular edition we should use? Anything helps!
Can anybody help me find this passage?
There’s this one section where gately is ruminating about a bunch of stuff during an engagement; he’s thinking about a lot of things as real things are happening. And I’m pretty sure this is where he begins to let himself fantasize about JVD, or maybe he sees her for the first time? I don’t know.
But he describes her beauty and the danger beauty itself poses to those in recovery, and it’s very beautiful and moving and intense.
No clue.