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 283-306: Let not thy mother lose her prayers

    It's our lucky 13th episode—we're just past page 300, and we have some technical difficulties!

    Topics of discussion
    • Johnny Gentle, famous crooner
    • Prorectors: the disaffected grad-student-class of ETA
    • A sort of contortionist with other people's bodies
    • Acid collections
    • Digital Bolexes: the mystery deepens!
    • Poor Tony's harrowing detox
    • "Zuckung"
      • See also
      • Wikipedia: Johnny Gentle
      • Wikipedia: Ascapart
      • Bolex Collector: Bolex H16
      • Angular speed of a DVD

        • We'll be reading pages 306–312 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 43 min
      • Pages 270–283: You deny your griefs to your friend

        We normally record our podcast on a Saturday afternoon, but we did this one on a Thursday morning and it shows. Please excuse the slightly reduced audio quality, due to the sudden and catastrophic failure of an SD card.

        Topics of discussion:
        • Clichés
        • "Egregious"
        • Assigned readings
        • Overworked students/space mutinies
          • See also:
          • Flatland
          • Oblomov
          • Mutiny in Space: Why These Skylab Astronauts Never Flew Again

            • We'll be reading pages 283–306 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 35 min
          • Pages 242–270: My pulse, as yours, temperately keeps time

            Our week 11 reading is dominated by a long phone call, so it seems somehow fitting, even thematically appropriate, that we, as always, meet up with our friends to discuss it telephonically.

            Topics of discussion
            • "The sated ghost cannot see secret things"
            • The unusual bodies of Infinite Jest
            • More Hamlet parallells
            • Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton/"It was a dark and stormy night"
              • See also
              • Atlas Obscura: Hex Signs of Pennsylvania
              • Wikipedia: Montcerf-Lytton, Quebec
              • Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest: 2019 winners
              • Lyttle Lytton Contest: 2019 winners
              • The New York Times: Roger Federer as Religious Experience by David Foster Wallace (2006)

                • We'll be reading pages 270–283 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 30 min
              • Pages 223–242: If she unmask her beauty to the moon

                It's week 10, we've made it to double digits!

                Topics of discussion
                • WHERE DID THE ACID GO?
                • Madame Psychosis/metempsychosis/psychopomps
                • Hedgehogs: what do they do?

                  • We'll be reading pages 242–270 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 45 min
                • Pages 198–223: Thoughts black, hands apt, drugs fit, and time agreeing

                  It's week 9, and we're still reading a long book!

                  Topics of discussion:
                  • French prescriptivism/Audio à la demande
                  • Facial isometrics/tortured Popes
                  • Recovery aphorisms/a disagreement over narrative perspective
                  • Evil CIA experiments/Medieval mass hallucinations
                  • Fiberglass replicas of famous filmmakers
                  • Suicidal ideation/other sad stuff
                    • See also:
                    • Francis Bacon, Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X, 1953
                    • Lou Eyrich's scalp tattoo
                    • e e cummings, Buffalo Bill's, 1920
                    • Errol Morris, Wormwood, 2017

                      • We'll be reading pages 223–242 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

                      Portia Cobb, No Justice, No Peace! Young, Black, ImMEDIAte! 1992

                      1 hr 12 min
                    • Pages 172–198: At night we'll feast together

                      Welcome back for our 8th week of Infinite Jest! We're up to page 198.

                      Topics of discussion:
                      • We're sad for Hal
                      • "Feral Prodigy"
                      • Mario Incandenza's cinematic influences
                      • Enfield Tennis Academy's academic curricular model
                      • "Bafflegab"
                      • The incident with the fork
                      • President Limbaugh?
                      • Formication
                      • "Unabashed bashing at its most fascist"
                      • Madame Psychosis
                      • The Union of the Hideously and Improbably Deformed
                      • Medusa vs. Odalisque
                      • Depressing books
                      • The mimetic architecture of the M.I.T. Student Union
                      • The buildings on Commonwealth Avenue
                        • See also:
                        • Gus Van Sant, The Discipline of D. E., 1978
                        • Hito Steyerl, How Not to be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File, 2013
                        • Guy Maddin, The Saddest Music in the World [trailer], 2003; My Winnipeg [trailer], 2008
                        • Jules Lefebvre, Odalisque, 1874
                        • M.I.T.'s Stratton Student Center, 1968
                        • The Longaberger Basket Company, 1997
                        • Eero Saarinen's M.I.T. Chapel, 1955

                          • We'll be reading pages 198–223 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 21 min
                        • Pages 151–172: The unnerved father falls

                          The gang is up to page 172 this week. This reading featured a long chapter with no paragraph breaks and menacing undertones! Topics of discussion

                          • Discord chicken quality
                          • James O. Incandenza's daddy issues
                          • The O.N.A.N. insignia
                          • Mario's head-mounted Bolex
                          • The Incandenzas’ inheritance of family problems
                          • Hideous tennis injuries
                          • DMZ/Madame Psychosis
                          • ⚡️HAMLET⚡️
                            • See also
                            • Bolex
                            • Digital Bolex
                            • The Discipline of D. E. - CORRECTION: I mistakenly claimed D. E. stood for “Doing Everything,” when in fact it stands for Do Easy.

                              • We'll be reading pages 172–198 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 16 min
                            • Pages 127–151: Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works

                              We're nearing two months of quarantine, and Vvinni's got bees! Topics of discussion include:

                              • Supposedly Lyle, on wisdom being the better part of valor
                              • The harrowing account of C's death by Yours Truly
                              • Lying to your brother over the phone
                              • The bricklayer joke
                              • Grading Hal's homework
                              • Microwaves, and the dangers thereof
                              • The treacheries of videoconferencing

                                • See also:

                                • Louis-Joseph Papineau; young Louis-Joseph Papineau's unfortunate hair
                                • Snopes: The Barrel of Bricks
                                • Mr. Show - The Story of Everest

                                  • For next week, we'll read up through page 172.

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

                                  Vvinni's paintings: Instagram.com/CardboardVv

                                  Andrew's videos: agingerich.com

                                  1 hr 21 min
                                • Pages 109–127: On the instant they got clear of our ship… I alone became their prisoner

                                  Not to brag, but it's our best episode so far! Topics of discussion include:

                                  • Last weekend's pie-baking fiasco
                                  • Dental hygiene
                                  • The three worst Pokémon types
                                  • You can only wear a yachting cap ironically so may times before you're wearing it sincerely
                                  • An anti-Entertainment!?
                                  • The ugly gender/sex politics of that deeply uncomfortable chapter with Mario and Millicent Kent
                                  • Twin Peaks' Denise Bryson vs. the transmisogyny of Friends

                                    • For next week, we'll read up through page 151.

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

                                    Vvinni's paintings: Instagram.com/CardboardVv

                                    Andrew's videos: agingerich.com

                                    1 hr 26 min
                                  • Pages 85/95–109: Swift as meditation, or the thoughts of love

                                    The gang all stopped reading on the same page this week! Topics of discussion include:

                                    • History of Entertainment
                                    • Big Buddies/Little Buddies
                                    • The Darkness
                                    • Oatmeal, big wooden spoons
                                    • Romance vs. duty
                                    • Puzzling out the provenance of the Entertainment

                                      • See also:

                                      • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: flow states
                                      • Bröckengespensf phenomenon
                                      • Marina Abramović & Ulay: Breathing in/breathing out (1977)
                                      • Samizdat

                                        • For next week, we'll read up through page 127.

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

                                        Vvinni's paintings: Instagram.com/CardboardVv

                                        Andrew's videos: agingerich.com

                                        58 min

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