Category Archives: DFW

Infinite Jest outtakes

Posted on November 23, 2010 by chris

What didn’t make it into ‘Infinite Jest’ (via Forever DFW)

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Infinite Jest, page 160

Posted on October 24, 2010 by chris

Bodies bodies everywhere. A tennis ball is the ultimate body, kid. We’re coming to the crux of what I have to try to impart to you before we get out there and start actuating this fearsome potential of yours. Jim, … Continue reading →

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Infinite Jest, page 159

Posted on August 6, 2010 by chris

know you know. I know you’ve looked at it before, many times. Now … now see it, Jim. See it as body. The dull-colored handle, the clockwise latch, the bits of bug trapped when the paint was wet and now … Continue reading →

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Infinite Jest, page 158

Posted on June 18, 2010 by chris

roared by. Jim, she never intuited the gentle and cunning economy behind this man’s quote harsh sloppy unstudied approach to objects. The way he’d oh so clearly practiced a chair’s back-leg tilt over and over. The way he’d studied objects … Continue reading →

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Infinite Jest, page 157

Posted on April 7, 2010 by chris

WINTER B.S. 1960 — TUCSON AZ Jim not that way Jim. That’s no way to treat a garage door, bending stiffly down at the waist and yanking at the handle so the door jerks up and out jerky and hard … Continue reading →

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