{"id":3467,"date":"2020-04-25T10:23:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T02:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/?p=3467"},"modified":"2020-05-07T08:28:05","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T00:28:05","slug":"whiplash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2020\/04\/whiplash\/","title":{"rendered":"Whiplash"},"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: <\/strong>65<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pages To Go: 91<\/strong>3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Footnotes: 27 of 388<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three episodes in as many pages, with three points of view to boot. It&#8217;s not quite as disorienting as before, but it does make it difficult to pick up the rhythm. Of course, Only reading a few pages a day doesn&#8217;t help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I mentioned a few posts back that there hadn&#8217;t been much use of I, but I definitely got that wrong. I went back and looked through some of the earlier episodes with Hal, and he seems to use I quite a bit. My mistake. I blame DFW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of all the individual characters we&#8217;ve introduced to so far, the one I&#8217;d like to stick with most is probably Orin. Hope we see more of him dressed in a Cardinal (the bird not the football team, or the Catholic official for that matter) costume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vocab Word: <strong>Synethesia<\/strong> a neurological condition in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway (for example, hearing) leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway (such as vision).<\/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: 65 Pages To Go: 913 Footnotes: 27 of 388 Three episodes in as many pages, with three points of view to boot. It&#8217;s not quite as disorienting as before, but it does make it difficult to pick up the rhythm. Of course, Only reading a few pages a day doesn&#8217;t help. I mentioned [&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":[3067,2089,3002,3001,3066],"class_list":["post-3467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novel","tag-cardinal","tag-catholic","tag-david-foster-wallace","tag-infinite-jest","tag-synethesia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467","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=3467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3469,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467\/revisions\/3469"}],"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=3467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}