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An action-packed section today that introduces new characters like Reginald and Wardine, Bruce Green and Mildred Bonk, and the much-loved medical attaché's wife.

April - Year of the Tucks Medical Pad - Year of the Trial Sized Dove Bar (27-39)

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About DFW: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/03/09/the-unfinished

.pdf of the Novel (page numbers different): https://raisuman123.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/david-foster-wallace-infinite-jest-v2-0.pdf

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Quotes: Pg 28: “I might have to burp a little bit in a second, from the soda. I’m alerting you ahead of time.”

Pg 32: “The light in the room was a creepy gray, a kind of nonlight. Hal could hear Brandt laughing at something Kenkle had said, off down the hall, and the clank of their janitorial buckets. The person on the phone had been O.”

Pg 33: “To say nothing of the arresting image of the idolatrous West’s most famous and self-congratulating idol, the colossal Libertine Statue, wearing some type of enormous adult-design diaper, a hilariously apposite image popular in the news photos of so many international journals.”

Pg 36: “The sideboard is against the wall opposite the room’s electronic reliner under a triptych of high-quiality Byzantine erotica...”

Pg 38: “Is she still pretty, she cry.”

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A tough question this week to put my knowledge of modern linguistics in the spotlight. Thank you to my Professors and University for equipping me with the knowledge to be able to prepare this episode!

Articulatory Synthesis (info not updated): http://www.vocaltractlab.de/index.php?page=background-articulatory-synthesis

Video on Concatenative Synthesis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NJoznf5HsA

Brief Paragraph on Generative Synthesis: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.05989

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Our second time looking at "Infinite Jest" as a group. What is Hal doing now, in the year of the depend adult undergarment?

Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment (17-27)

What book is this?  https://www.relevanceofliterature.com/infinite-jest

Terminology for this chapter: https://www.relevanceofliterature.com/infinite-jest-1

About DFW: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/03/09/the-unfinished

.pdf of the Novel (page numbers different): https://raisuman123.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/david-foster-wallace-infinite-jest-v2-0.pdf

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Quotes:

Pg 19 quote: “Money created a sense of obligation, and he should have wanted the woman to feel obliged to do what she’d said, once what she’d said she’d do had set him off inside.”

Pg 24 quote: “The insect sat inside its dark shiny case with an immobility that seemed like the gathering of a force, it sat like the hull of the vehicle from which the engine had been for the moment removed.”

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We are starting off the year this year with a brand new series on David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest," one of the hardest novels known to literature to finish. (You can likely tell that I am still sick from my cold, so apologies on my cloggy voice during this recording!)

Foreword through The Year of Glad (xii-17)

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Quotes:

“Whereas most religions deify only certain words, Wallace exalted all of them.” (xiii)

“Try to get underway before the godawful heat out there. Though of course it’s a dry heat.” (5)

“But it transcends the mechanics…” (12)

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The Old Curiosity Shop? Curious...

.pdf of this novel: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/700

Resources:

http://www.dickenslit.com/Old_Curiosity_Shop/

https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/novels/old-curiosity-shop/

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Finally a look at the brilliant "David Copperfield," a novel that does not disappoint.

Brittanica: https://www.britannica.com/topic/David-Copperfield-novel

Pdf of the Book: https://www.planetebook.com/free-ebooks/david-copperfield.pdf

The Editor’s Blog: https://theeditorsblog.net/2013/04/19/tone-mood-style-the-feel-of-fiction/

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My top 5 books from 2019. Thank you all for a great year, and stay tuned later today for the first #DecemberDickens upload!

Cormac and I: https://didionandhawthorne.blubrry.net/2019/01/26/cormac-and-i-bonus-1/

Play it as it lays: https://didionandhawthorne.blubrry.net/2019/06/03/play-it-as-it-lays-by-joan-didion-episode-43/

Machines like me:https://didionandhawthorne.blubrry.net/2019/07/01/machines-like-me-by-ian-mcewan-episode-47/

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A repost of "On Reading Dickens," an episode that airs every year to kick off #DecemberDickens.

Host: Mackenzie Gentz

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What makes a prolific writer? Who are some of the most prolific writers in history?

Check out this short list of prolific writers: https://booksonthewall.com/blog/five-worlds-prolific-authors/

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