What are your thoughts on Hal Incandenza?
Literally: WHO THE FUCK IS THAT?
I identify with his inability to identify.
so does he sneak off to get high because he likes being high or is it like a metaphor for his need to mask his inner turmoil and like symbolic of his coping through numbing
hmmm...
>implying mario isn't GOAT
wew
Hits a little closer to home near the end. Minus the smarts. Especially the internal dialogue at the end.
Did anyone else have the pet theory that the mold was just a scapegoat for what was inherently wrong with him?
hes just a thin veil through whom we get to know the real star of IJ.
meme tier author of genre fiction with no discernible talent.
>>7727564
A character in infinite jest
>>7727994
You sounds like a bich
Is Incandenza a hispanic name?
>>7728504
It says in the book it's Italian
>>7727557
Not very incandescent t b h.
>>7727557
>What's that nice smell?
You mean Byron the Bulb?
>>7728504
What's relevant is what the name signifies.
>>7728509
it doesn't
weak meme anon
>>7728705
"The name handed down paternally from an Umbrian five generations past and now much diluted by N.E. Yankee"
incandenza is a combination of the words incandescent and influenza. the family is a bright shining disease.
>>7729482
Always v bothered by the name being incanden- and jumping straight to -za where you should have expected incandescenza
I never got used to it
It's a long book and I never got used to it
>>7728680
a halogen lightbulb?
kill whitey
