{"id":3644,"date":"2021-03-22T03:35:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T19:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/?p=3644"},"modified":"2021-03-22T03:36:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T19:36:54","slug":"going-undercover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2021\/03\/going-undercover\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Undercover"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" id=\"block-7507afea-d9a0-43a0-b12b-c0960390b188\"><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 id=\"block-98907445-a09a-4702-837f-3bdd67d84350\"><strong>Pages Read: <\/strong>364<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-2c11d6c5-1486-48d8-b698-672f06a6d38b\"><strong>Pages To Go: <\/strong>614<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-21d2a2f1-742b-4608-838b-1ceaa7e1bd6c\"><strong>Footnotes: <\/strong>141 of 388<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-80b66b5d-9c28-42bb-bd92-8724a76aa09b\">Let me preface what I&#8217;m about to write by saying I don&#8217;t know what kind of addiction journey he went through, but I can just imagine a young David Foster Wallace traveling to every Boston AA location on a regular basis as part of his research for Infinite Jest. Otherwise he&#8217;s got an amazing imagination (which is probably the case either way) and a tremendous eye for detail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-907431ae-f87e-4bfa-a673-177a7cdf82d4\">Of particular note from this last bit is we finally discover the clearest connection yet between the two main story threads, when Joelle Van Dyne pops up at Don Gately&#8217;s AA chapter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-9d6191fd-6b23-4fa5-b05e-b19f3760218d\">Why this happens doesn&#8217;t need an explanation. How it happens is a different story. The last I remember, JVD had committed suicide. Thankfully, she was unsuccessful. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, because of the weird back and forth time jumps, her suicide could happen after she checks into rehab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-d1c712c6-22ad-448b-b04f-1ccf1d5d7431\">Vocab Word: <strong>Selvage<\/strong> An edge produced on woven fabric during manufacture that prevents it from unraveling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pages Read: 364 Pages To Go: 614 Footnotes: 141 of 388 Let me preface what I&#8217;m about to write by saying I don&#8217;t know what kind of addiction journey he went through, but I can just imagine a young David Foster Wallace traveling to every Boston AA location on a regular basis as part of [&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":[3039,3197,3002,3001,3195,3196,623],"class_list":["post-3644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novel","tag-addiction","tag-alcoholics-anonymous","tag-david-foster-wallace","tag-infinite-jest","tag-joelle-van-dyne","tag-rehab","tag-suicide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644","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=3644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3645,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644\/revisions\/3645"}],"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=3644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}