Good Looking People in Small Clever Rooms That Utilize Every Centimeter of Available Space

Good Looking People in Small Clever Rooms That Utilize Every Centimeter of Available Space

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  • Pages 528–548: Let me be cruel, not unnatural

    CW: animal cruelty

    Topics of discussion:

    • Why we skip reading things;
    • Marathe and Steeply continue sitting; 
    • Joelle/Don Gately - veils, misunderstanding words;
    • Randy Lenz - doing a little cocaine;
    • Graphic violence and the purpose in the novel


      • See also:

      • The Cryptid Keeper (specifically, the cigar-smoking Kapre);
      • TV Tropes - So Beautiful it's a Curse;
      • Kejōrō (from Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki);
      • Harionago; 
      • 90s Ganguro style; 
      • Douglas Bader, amputee pilot; 
      • Circe (also a novel by Madeline Miller);
      • L'Academie Francaise - members are called "immortal"


        • We'll be reading pages 548–565 next time.

        Have you read Infinite Jest, or have you tried to read Infinite Jest? Let us know: anchor.fm/small-clever-rooms/message

        Brianna's website: BriannaKratz.com | Brianna's Infinite Jest timeline

        Vvinni's painting Instagram: @CardboardVv

        Andrew's videos & writing: agingerich.com | Andrew's film photography Instagram: @CoffeeStopFix

        59 min
      • Pages 491–528: With sorrow I embrace my fortune

        Topics of discussion:

        James O.'s autobiography; Casual sexism + gender roles; Narcotics Anonymous; Hank Hoyne and studying The Entertainment; Lateral Alice Moore; Politeness Roulette; and EPISODE 17

        See also:

        • Squirrels jumping into leaves
        • Cats and olive juice
        • The Man from Glad
        • Cahiers du Cinéma
        • French New Wave
        • Powell's Peeping Tom (trailer)
        • Magneto
        • Ada McMahon
        • Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul and Salmon of Doubt
        • Brachistochrone curve
        • Anechoic chambers
        • Constellations: Hercules, Perseus, Castor/Pollux
        • James Jason Walsh, "American Hamlet: Shakespearean Epistemology in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest"
        • Night Sky application for Mac
        • Statler and Waldorf
        • The color blue
        • Bill Murry went to my high school
        • John Newcombe (Tennis Ranch)
        • Coatlicue
        • Sound memories
        • Toronto Bluejays' Skydome (The Rogers Centre)


          • We’ll be reading pages 528–548 next week.

          Have you read Infinite Jest, or have you tried to read Infinite Jest? Let us know: anchor.fm/small-clever-rooms/message

          Brianna’s website: briannakratz.com - Brianna’s Infinite Jest timeline

          Vvinni’s paintings: Instagram.com/CardboardVv

          Andrew’s videos & writing: agingerich.com

          1 hr 25 min
        • Pages 470-491: Murder, though it have no tongue, will speak

          Topics of discussion:

          Marathe and Steeply's conversation about neurology and p-terminals; "Has anyone told you Don Gately has a square head?"; the Antitoi Brothers' shenanigans; stereotyping of folks in wheelchairs; Infinite Jest: apparently unfilmable, but IS IT?

          See also:

          • Briggs electrodes
          • James Olds' study about "reward centers"
          • MKUltra
          • Tuskegee Project
          • Emmett Leith and holography
          • The May Day Mystery


            • We’ll be reading pages 491–528 next time.

            Have you read Infinite Jest, or have you tried to read Infinite Jest? Let us know: anchor.fm/small-clever-rooms/message

            Brianna’s website: briannakratz.com - Brianna’s Infinite Jest timeline

            Vvinni’s paintings: Instagram.com/CardboardVv

            Andrew’s videos & writing: agingerich.com; instagram.com/coffeestopfix 

            1 hr 4 min
          • Pages 442–470: Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults

            Topics of discussion:

            New bikes; trite cliches that actually work; teeth dreams; the whereabouts of Madame Psychosis; A.M. drills; C.T. and Total Worry; living within the tennis court; and CAKE

            See also:

            • Polonius from Hamlet (paper bag Hamlet; Ian Holm; Bill Murray)
            • David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water" Kenyon Commencement address
            • The Neverending Story (movie)
            • Inside Out (movie)
            • Mimetic architecture
            • Title IX
            • P-Zombie
            • Betty Crocker's yellow cake mix

              • We’ll be reading pages 470–491 next week.

              Have you read Infinite Jest, or have you tried to read Infinite Jest? Let us know: anchor.fm/small-clever-rooms/message

              Brianna’s website: briannakratz.com | Brianna’s Infinite Jest timeline

              Vvinni’s paintings: Instagram.com/CardboardVv

              Andrew’s videos & writing: agingerich.com | Andrew’s film photography: Instagram.com/CoffeeStopFix

              1 hr 9 min
            • Pages 418–442: How came he dead?

              Topics of discussion:

              Marathe and Steeply talk the Office of Unspecified Services, their political philosophies, and SOUP; The American Dream; Eric Clipperton (finally some closure); Gately and cleaning; Dr. Dolores Rusk, ETA counselor

              See also:

              • Shining Path + Maxwell House
              • Radiohead's "Fitter Happier"
              • Utilitarianism + Jeremy Bentham, mummy
              • David Foster Wallace's "Consider the Lobster"
              • Kelly Reichardt's Meek's Cutoff (movie)
              • Cities + cars + horse poop
              • Why Andrew didn't have an Instagram until now

                • We’ll be reading pages 442–470 next week.

                Have you read Infinite Jest, or have you tried to read Infinite Jest? Let us know: anchor.fm/small-clever-rooms/message

                Brianna’s website: briannakratz.com - Brianna’s Infinite Jest timeline

                Vvinni’s paintings: Instagram.com/CardboardVv

                Andrew’s videos & writing: agingerich.com

                Andrew's photos developed in instant coffee: instagram.com/coffeestopfix/ 

                1 hr 32 min
              • Pages 395–418: It might be the pate of a politician

                Topics of discussion:Eschaton, film, leitmotif, critics and consumerism, President Gentle, Eric Clipperton, advertising, computer storage, Schtitt's politics, and BANANAS!

                See also:

                • Corrie Baldauf's Infinite Jest Project - Instagram
                • Carole Maso's Ava (book)
                • Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse (book)
                • Carl Elsaesser (filmmaker)
                • Steven Soderbergh's Schizopolis (film)
                • critics in fiction: Louise Penny's Three Pines mysteries, Ratatouille, and Chef
                • 1972 Democratic Primary
                • Sherman Antitrust Act of 1980
                • Well, there's your problem (YouTube series)

                  • We’ll be reading pages 418–442 next week.

                  Have you read Infinite Jest, or have you tried to read Infinite Jest? Let us know: anchor.fm/small-clever-rooms/message

                  Brianna’s website: briannakratz.com - Brianna’s Infinite Jest timeline

                  Vvinni’s paintings: Instagram.com/CardboardVv

                  Andrew’s videos & writing: agingerich.com

                  1 hr 34 min
                • Pages 375–395: Unto our climatures and countrymen

                  Topics of discussion: Marathe and Steeply on the ledge, still; anti-confluentialism; Interdependence Day celebrations at Enfield Tennis Academy; the politics of O.N.A.N.; the politics of A.A.; how to do A.A. "right;" also HATS 

                  See also: 

                  • filmmakers: Fritz Lang, Robert Bresson, Maya Deren, Hollis Frampton 
                  • Jacques Godbout's Kid Sentiment & The Black Sheep 
                  • Roger Ebert's review of Pink Flamingos 
                  • Andrew's non-fiction poetics essay, "Self-Consciousness, Performance, and the Technical Monster" 
                  • William Blake "The Tyger" & "The Lamb" 
                  • Allen Ginsberg reading William Blake 
                  • Tod Haynes' Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (movie) 
                  • Denise Duhamel's Barbie poems, Kinky 
                  • Cloud Atlas (movie) 
                  • Network (movie) 
                  • Avatar: The Last Air Bender 
                  • Inygo Montoya in The Princess Bride 
                  • Murder on the Orient Express (1974 movie) 
                  • Peter Greenaway's The Falls (movie) 

                    • We’ll be reading pages 395–418 next week. 

                    Have you read Infinite Jest, or have you tried to read Infinite Jest? Let us know: anchor.fm/small-clever-rooms/message 

                    Brianna’s website: briannakratz.com - Brianna’s Infinite Jest timeline 

                    Vvinni’s paintings: Instagram.com/CardboardVv 

                    Andrew’s videos & writing: agingerich.com

                    1 hr 36 min
                  • Pages 343–375: Now for ourself and for this time of meeting

                    Please excuse this late installment—it's because I'm lazy! In this episode, we talk about AA and dive into David Foster Wallace's sometimes-unsavory biography.

                    See also
                    • The Atlantic: The Irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous | NPR: Critic Faults Alcoholics Anonymous For Lack Of Evidence
                    • David Foster Wallace, E Unibus Pluram
                    • The Awl: Inside David Foster Wallace's Private Self-Help Library
                    • New York Magazine: Just Kids
                    • The Atlantic: David Foster Wallace and the Dangerous Romance of Male Genius
                    • WBUR: Memoirist Mary Karr On God, #MeToo And Speaking Up About David Foster Wallace
                    • The Dollop: The Coors Family

                      • We'll be reading pages 375–395 next week.

                      Have you read Infinite Jest, or have you tried to read Infinite Jest? Let us know: anchor.fm/small-clever-rooms/message

                      Brianna's website: briannakratz.com - Brianna's Infinite Jest timeline

                      Vvinni's paintings: Instagram.com/CardboardVv

                      Andrew's videos & writing: agingerich.com

                      1 hr 23 min
                    • Pages 312–343: This warlike volley

                      After a one-week hiccup in our schedule, we're back and reading about an unmitigated fiasco. That's right—it's Eschaton!

                      Topics of discussion

                      Cameras (again); Mario Incandenza continues to be one of the few characters with any redeeming qualities; Emil Minty is a real person!?; beasts; computers; apocalypses; unidentified Ford-sitters.

                      See also
                      • Bolex H16 REX-5 | Silicon Imaging SI-2K Mini
                      • Wikipedia: Emil Minty
                      • Wikipedia: Gaudeamus igitur | Library of Congress: Gaudeamus igitur
                      • The Verge: Eschaton is a surreal Zoom nightclub — and a theater for the age of social distancing
                      • Official trailer: The Pilgrim's Progress
                      • Wikimedia Commons: Albrecht Dürer's *The best with the lamb's horns and the beast with seven heads
                      • VT100.net: DIGITAL Computing Timeline – 1994
                      • Wikipedia: Commentary (magazine) | Google Books: Running Commentary: The Contentious Magazine that Transformed the Jewish Left Into the Neoconservative Right
                      • The Decemberists' Calamity Song music video | All Songs Considered first watch: The Decemberists, Calamity Song

                        • We'll be reading pages 343–375 next week.

                        Have you read Infinite Jest, or have you tried to read Infinite Jest? Let us know: anchor.fm/small-clever-rooms/message

                        Brianna's website: briannakratz.com - Brianna's Infinite Jest timeline

                        Vvinni's paintings: Instagram.com/CardboardVv

                        Andrew's videos & writing: agingerich.com

                        1 hr 49 min
                      • Pages 306–312: Sir, a whole history

                        Welcome to our belated fourteenth episode—sorry, it couldn't be helped! This week, we learn more about Quebecois separatists and discuss our own, largely-inadequate history educations.

                        Topics of discussion:
                        • Answering the double-bind essay question
                        • Inadequate curricula, both real and fictional
                        • Quebec History in Infinite Jest: Disentangling Fact from Fiction: A Brief Survey of Canadian Historical References in the Writings of David Foster Wallace
                        • Wile E. Coyote as a model for direct action in the Quebec freedom struggle
                          • See also:
                          • Wikipedia: Felo de se
                          • Wikipedia: Cap-Rouge, Quebec City
                          • Wikipedia: Louis de Buade de Frontenac
                          • Wikipedia: Château Frontenac
                          • Wikipedia: Jacques Cartier
                          • Wikipedia: Jean-François Roberval
                          • Wikipedia: Samuel de Champlain
                          • Wikipedia: Ursulines
                          • Wikipedia: Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst
                          • Wikipedia: Meech Lake Accord
                          • Wikipedia: Jacques Parizeau
                          • Wikipedia: 1995 Quebec referendum
                          • Wikipedia: Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades
                          • Infinite Jest Wiki – Notes and Errata (page 1016 notes on Brazilian Nuevo Contras/Noie Störkraft/The Shining Path/Belgian CCC's)

                            • We'll be reading pages 312–343 next week.

                            Have you read Infinite Jest, or have you tried to read Infinite Jest? Let us know: anchor.fm/small-clever-rooms/message

                            Brianna's website: briannakratz.com - Brianna's Infinite Jest timeline

                            Vvinni's paintings: Instagram.com/CardboardVv

                            Andrew's videos: agingerich.com

                            1 hr 52 min

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