{"id":3522,"date":"2020-11-12T09:44:49","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T01:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/?p=3522"},"modified":"2020-11-12T09:46:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T01:46:16","slug":"who-in-the-world-is-joelle-van-dyne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2020\/11\/who-in-the-world-is-joelle-van-dyne\/","title":{"rendered":"Who In The World Is Joelle Van Dyne?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/infnite-jest.jpg\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is infnite-jest.jpg\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pages Read: <\/strong>223<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pages To Go: 7<\/strong>55<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Footnotes: 79 <\/strong>of 388<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I feel like I should have a better idea of who she is at this point. Is it because I haven&#8217;t been reading regularly as I get sucked into the vortex of election news and our country&#8217;s daily steps towards totalitarianism that I&#8217;m not able to recall important biographical details regarding Ms. van Dyne? Or is she a brand new character, and all we know so far is from the last few pages?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m tempted to do another quick Google search, but I&#8217;m refraining. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s like I&#8217;m back in university and I have an essay exam I&#8217;m ill-prepared for, so I&#8217;m stuck writing three pages on Moll Flanders when all I can remember are a few underlined points on the chalkboard from several weeks ago. I&#8217;ll just write something about how the author was trying to point out the societal restraints that women faced during this time period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, all I know about van Dyne is she&#8217;s getting ready to commit suicide and she&#8217;s somehow connected to James Incandenza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the plus side, we just learned a lot more about why every year is being sponsored by a brand. It was just as I surmised! I definitely earned a sticker on that one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vocab Word: <strong>Carbuncular<\/strong> of, relating to, or resembling a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/browse\/carbuncle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">carbuncle<\/a>, especially having a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/browse\/carbuncle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">carbuncle<\/a> or a red and inflamed area..<\/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: 223 Pages To Go: 755 Footnotes: 79 of 388 I feel like I should have a better idea of who she is at this point. Is it because I haven&#8217;t been reading regularly as I get sucked into the vortex of election news and our country&#8217;s daily steps towards totalitarianism that I&#8217;m not [&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":[3002,3001,3113,3114],"class_list":["post-3522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novel","tag-david-foster-wallace","tag-infinite-jest","tag-moll-flanders","tag-totalitarianism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522","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=3522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3523,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522\/revisions\/3523"}],"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=3522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}