Very difficult to work through but all illustrative of DFW's point that "Jest's unwieldy structure was a reflection of fractured contemporaneity—the impossibility of any one thing holding your attention."
Now Morty, that quote above is from that Newsweek article you sent me yesterday, and makes the point I was going to about reading the footnotes as you go along better than I could. Not to lecture you, but you should read it as DFW intended, flipping to the footnotes as you come upon them in the text.
Plus, from a practical standpoint, aren't you going to need to refer back to the text when you're reading through pages of footnotes like this one I picked at random? :
305. (she thought then)
Wouldn't going back through all the pages you just read to see what the hell he was referring to take even longer than checking the footnotes when you find them in the text? I'm just sayin'
I'll do it however I like, thank you.
ReplyDeleteNo - you can't!
ReplyDeleteDid I tell you I saw a guy in the DC Metro last weekend reading IJ? He had like a dozen bookmarks going all at once. I'm going to start out with just two and see how it goes from there.
ReplyDeleteI have one long floppy one that I keep stuck in the front & back at the same time. works for me!
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