Infinite Jest (1996) (edit title/settings)

KaiserKeenly edited the summary of Infinite Jest Sunday, April 22, 2012.

• Chronology's unimportant: this novel details the distinct but related worlds of the Enfield Tennis Academy, where teens get the life sucked out of them with the hope of making it big, where the dean's a fascistto "The Show", and where protagonistseventeen year-old Hal Incandenza undergoes a tragicmetamorphosis at the hands of strangedrug called DMZ,addiction and that ofwithdrawal. Just down the hill, at Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House <sic>, whereDon Gately and an ensemble of other misfits try to reform their lives and escape addiction to alcohol and drugs; it's a metaphor for the addiction to entertainment in America, which is also explicated in the third, overlying story: French terrorists in wheelchairs are trying to acquire a copy of a movie so good it's impossible to stop watching, which they hope to use to end American imperialism in North America. This is a geometrically organized spiderweb of a world that's built on a ethico-philosophico-moral premise that's impossible to shake loose.

Andy edited the summary of Infinite Jest Thursday, March 8, 2012.

• Chronology's unimportant: this novel details the distinct but related worlds of the Enfield Tennis Academy, where teens get the life sucked out of himthem with the hope of making it big, where the dean's a fascist and where protagonist Hal Incandenza undergoes a tragic metamorphosis at the hands of astrange drug called DMZ, and that of the Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House <sic>, where Don Gately and an ensemble of other misfits try to reform their lives and escape addiction to alcohol and drugs; it's a metaphor for the addiction to entertainment in America, which is also explicated in the third, overlying story: French terrorists in wheelchairs are trying to acquire a copy of a movie so good it's impossible to stop watching, which they hope to use to end American imperialism in North America. This is a geometrically organized spiderweb of a world that's built on a ethico-philosophico-moral premise that's impossible to shake loose.

Jake B edited the summary of Infinite Jest Friday, December 23, 2011.

• Chronology's unimportant: this novel details the distinct but related worlds of the Enfield Tennis Academy, where teens get the life sucked out of him with the hope of making it big, where the dean's a fascist and where protagonist Hal Incandenza undergoes a tragic metamorphosis at the hands of a strange drug called DMZ, and that of the Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House <sic>, where Don Gately and an ensemble of other misfits try to reform their lives and escape addiction to alcohol and drugs; it's a metaphor for the addiction to entertainment in America, which is also explicated in the third, overlying story: French terrorists in wheelchairs are trying to acquire a copy of a movie so good it's impossible to stop watching, which they hope to use to end American imperialism in North America. This is a geometrically organized spiderweb of a world that's built on a ethico-philosophico-moral premise that's impossible to shake loose.