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Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of Infinite Jest.What did he


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>Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of Infinite Jest.

What did he mean by this?
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He was sincere.
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>>8249085
Yorick was a huge fan of David Foster Wallace.
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>>8249085
what's with all the hamlet threads lately?
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>>8249103
I just read it. The gravedigging scene is the best.
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>>8249085
W-wait. Yorick is a fellow of INFINITE JEST. Yorick is dead at the time Hamlet says this line.

Does "a fellow of infinite jest" mean "a dead fellow" in DFW's eyes? Was he foreshadowing his an hero?
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>>8249239
>not acknowledging the past tense
nice b8 m8.

Wonderful scene though. Sheer contract between what is said and what is presented, the fellow of infinite jest reduced to nothing but bones.
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>>8249239
>Does "a fellow of infinite jest" mean "a dead fellow"

You ever seen a human skull? Ever notice that it appears to have a leering grin?
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>>8249322
so does this pic, and it is also infinite, i.e. eternal
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Yorick...............was he black?
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