I read it on my phone and found it all much less cumbersome -- the footnotes might as well be the main text when it's a single tap of the thumb to open them.
Eschaton isn't that complicated either, it's essentially just kids roleplaying as world governments in a nuclear scenario using applied gamd theory to figure out when to launch nukes, which they represent with lobbed tennis balls. The math is mostly decorative vibes.
Interesting. Perhaps I'll give reading it on Kindle a try to make the footnotes feasible. Also, I suspect you have me by 20 IQ points or something. I came nowhere near following along with Eschaton. Perhaps I was just too lazy.
I stopped reading when you said you ignored the footnotes. DFW has tennis engrained in him—flipping back and forth is intentional. You clearly miss the entire point before you even began.
My favorite book.
I read it on my phone and found it all much less cumbersome -- the footnotes might as well be the main text when it's a single tap of the thumb to open them.
Eschaton isn't that complicated either, it's essentially just kids roleplaying as world governments in a nuclear scenario using applied gamd theory to figure out when to launch nukes, which they represent with lobbed tennis balls. The math is mostly decorative vibes.
Interesting. Perhaps I'll give reading it on Kindle a try to make the footnotes feasible. Also, I suspect you have me by 20 IQ points or something. I came nowhere near following along with Eschaton. Perhaps I was just too lazy.
I stopped reading when you said you ignored the footnotes. DFW has tennis engrained in him—flipping back and forth is intentional. You clearly miss the entire point before you even began.
That's an interesting way to look at the footnotes, that's for sure. Unforgettable, even!
The story was hard to follow even without the book being a tennis match simulation, at least for me. Whatever the case, thanks for the comment.
Infinite Jest is about how people’s attention spans are slipping away into lazy convenience and how that will lead us to a future of fascism.