{"id":3455,"date":"2020-04-16T08:31:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T00:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/?p=3455"},"modified":"2020-04-25T10:18:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T02:18:57","slug":"true-crime-early-90s-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2020\/04\/true-crime-early-90s-style\/","title":{"rendered":"True Crime Early 90s Style"},"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><strong>Pages Read: 5<\/strong>7<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pages To Go: 92<\/strong>1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Footnotes: 20 of 388<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;d watch the modern noir crime thriller based on this chapter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some random observations, now that I&#8217;m about six percent of the way in:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>DFW knows a LOT about recreational drug use.<\/li><li>In the episodes that concern addiction and drug use, DFW&#8217;s style is much more immersive and narrative, and therefore much easier to follow along. More please.<\/li><li>People are so predictable. Is this because people are afraid of being viewed as different? Is it intellectual laziness?<\/li><li>I definitely want to know what happens in Don Gately vs. Assistant D.A.<\/li><li>I am 100% certain that Vince Gilligan has read Infinite Jest.<\/li><li>As I was flipping through the footnotes trying to find the right page, I found that one of the next few footnotes is several pages long and involves a detailed filmography for an as yet unmet character, James Incandenza. That&#8217;s going to be a rough one. Already weighing whether I can safely skim through it without feeling like a complete failure.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m also very very intrigued by teleputers. Was this really a thing? Did DFW make it up? Did he take a very niche technology in the prototype stage and imagine that it would become a mass consumer item? It&#8217;s like a hint of science fiction in an otherwise extremely grounded narrative. It&#8217;s like something out of Vonnegut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vocab Word: <strong>Lividity <\/strong>reddish- to bluish-purple discoloration of the skin due to the settling and pooling of blood following death (I actually know what this one was, thanks to Serial. Justice for Adnan Syed!)<\/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>Pages Read: 57 Pages To Go: 921 Footnotes: 20 of 388 I&#8217;d watch the modern noir crime thriller based on this chapter. Some random observations, now that I&#8217;m about six percent of the way in: DFW knows a LOT about recreational drug use. In the episodes that concern addiction and drug use, DFW&#8217;s style is [&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":[3057,3002,3001,3060,3058,3059],"class_list":["post-3455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novel","tag-adnan-syed","tag-david-foster-wallace","tag-infinite-jest","tag-recreational-drug-use","tag-serial","tag-vince-gilligan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3455","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=3455"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3468,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3455\/revisions\/3468"}],"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=3455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}