Today’s Pharmacology Report

Pages Read: 168

Pages To Go: 810

Footnotes: 57 of 388

I wonder if Infinite Jest is required reading for anyone who wants to become a pharmacist. I feel like in a pinch I could whip up my own tonics, cordials, and embrocations, and I’m only 150 pages in.

Rather than following a linear track, the novel keeps radiating outward, like ripples in a pond (or an amoeba), as it introduces and then follows more and more of the ancillary characters.

In today’s episode, it’s Michael Pemulis, amateur (or technically I should say professional) drug dealer. I have nothing more to say about Pemulis right now, except that he really knows how to rock that yachting cap.

Vocab Word: Ephebic Pertaining to a young man or to early manhood, especially in Ancient Greek contexts.

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