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comix64and now i am to articulate a thought i have had drolling about in my mind for quite a while:
the crux of my love for Infinite Jest is that it, as a fiction, changes almost fundamental parts of life (or at least society) in very small but immediate ways (e.g., brand-owned year names instead of numbers, the conca/vexity, the O.N.A.N, Pink2, James Incandenza (and his implied impact on film), the Entertainment, Eschaton, &c.), which cause you to reflect on their real-world, now mundane equivalent (e.g., numbers being used for years, which causes you to consider capitalism's role in day to day life), as well as mentally create new parts of the book's lore in unfilled positions of the story, which is basically the rest of the entire world (like, does Russia keep its year-number scheme since it's communist? is Eschaton popular in, say, Brazil? Cuba? Finland? suppose Ann Kittenplan had a cousin that worked at a bar and... &c.), which itself is also able to cause you to compare/contrast your own temporary mental fanfictions against real-life as well (ex.: what if the splayed demeanor of the syuzhet were to be applied to a work of non-fiction? what would it focus on so studiously as an equivalent to the parallel events played out by the Incandenzas, the A.F.R., Poor Tony Krause? the work picks seemingly random events and presents them to you randomly, only connected by all being in the same fictional world, with recurring characters and through this recurring topics and in a way recurring implied events. this is usable as a work of fiction because none of them really exist and so one finds interest, and is always entirely in the dark upon their first read of, any work that chronicles a world in that way. were it to be applied to reality, theres no doubt some or most events would already be known about, especially if one tries to recreate parts of the statuses of characters (everyone knows about JOI, so what real filmmaker would be focused on with such famous status and skill?). one could also attempt an exercise in whoch entirely new characters, events and concepts are made up and strung together in a similar manner, w/ or w/o being an extension of the preestablished fiction as a work of temporary mental and unwritten/unpublished fanfiction.
the crux of my love for Infinite Jest is that it, as a fiction, changes almost fundamental parts of life (or at least society) in very small but immediate ways (e.g., brand-owned year names instead of numbers, the conca/vexity, the O.N.A.N, Pink2, James Incandenza (and his implied impact on film), the Entertainment, Eschaton, &c.), which cause you to reflect on their real-world, now mundane equivalent (e.g., numbers being used for years, which causes you to consider capitalism's role in day to day life), as well as mentally create new parts of the book's lore in unfilled positions of the story, which is basically the rest of the entire world (like, does Russia keep its year-number scheme since it's communist? is Eschaton popular in, say, Brazil? Cuba? Finland? suppose Ann Kittenplan had a cousin that worked at a bar and... &c.), which itself is also able to cause you to compare/contrast your own temporary mental fanfictions against real-life as well (ex.: what if the splayed demeanor of the syuzhet were to be applied to a work of non-fiction? what would it focus on so studiously as an equivalent to the parallel events played out by the Incandenzas, the A.F.R., Poor Tony Krause? the work picks seemingly random events and presents them to you randomly, only connected by all being in the same fictional world, with recurring characters and through this recurring topics and in a way recurring implied events. this is usable as a work of fiction because none of them really exist and so one finds interest, and is always entirely in the dark upon their first read of, any work that chronicles a world in that way. were it to be applied to reality, theres no doubt some or most events would already be known about, especially if one tries to recreate parts of the statuses of characters (everyone knows about JOI, so what real filmmaker would be focused on with such famous status and skill?). one could also attempt an exercise in whoch entirely new characters, events and concepts are made up and strung together in a similar manner, w/ or w/o being an extension of the preestablished fiction as a work of temporary mental and unwritten/unpublished fanfiction.
