LSD On Steroids

Pages Read: 216

Pages To Go: 762

Footnotes: 77 of 388

Infinite Jest is at its best when we’re at ETA with Hal, his brother, and the other student players. I wonder if anyone’s stripped out just these scenes and put them together for people to read.

I think I’d prefer that version.

As for this episode, I’m predicting that when Hal partakes of one or more hits of the DMZ, that’s what induces his altered reality which we saw in the opening pages.

Vocab Word: Ergotic Any of several fungi of the genus Claviceps, especially C. purpurea, that infect various cereal plants and form compact black masses of branching filaments that replace the grains of the host plant. Humans and livestock can be poisoned by ingesting ergot-infected grains.

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