{"id":3417,"date":"2020-04-05T07:54:26","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T23:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/?p=3417"},"modified":"2020-04-05T07:54:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T23:54:28","slug":"false-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2020\/04\/false-start\/","title":{"rendered":"False Start"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"572\" height=\"381\" src=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/infnite-jest.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3411\" srcset=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/infnite-jest.jpg 572w, http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/infnite-jest-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So I started reading last night. I made it about three paragraphs before I fell asleep. Not an auspicious beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since I have next to nothing to report about page one, except that it seems to indicate an academic setting, let me provide a little background about what I know about Infinite Jest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I know very little. This is mainly by design. I refuse to read introductions or even the back blurb before starting a book. I like to go in as untainted as possible by what other people have to say about a book. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This means that I have no idea what Infinite Jest is about. All I do know is that it&#8217;s considered a monumental work of extreme importance. Although that&#8217;s an assumption based on the reverent tones used when talking about it, since the truth is I don&#8217;t know many people that have ever finished it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, the main thing that I do know about Infinite Jest is it&#8217;s considered a difficult read. While I didn&#8217;t make it very far into it last night, my initial impression was as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This makes more sense than Ulysses.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far so good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>You are reading my live blog of Infinite Jest. Start at the <a href=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2020\/04\/this-might-be-an-infinite-jest-all-right\/\">beginning<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I started reading last night. I made it about three paragraphs before I fell asleep. Not an auspicious beginning. Since I have next to nothing to report about page one, except that it seems to indicate an academic setting, let me provide a little background about what I know about Infinite Jest. I know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[3008,3007,3002,3001,3009,546],"class_list":["post-3417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novel","tag-academic-setting","tag-bedtime","tag-david-foster-wallace","tag-infinite-jest","tag-tired","tag-ulysses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3418,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417\/revisions\/3418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}