INFINITE JEST readalong pp 711-755
Soccer season is giving me the howling fantods, y’all. Thus, this will be brief.
Your song for this week is Violet by Jeremy Messersmith because it’s about a girl who got assaulted, like Kate Gompert, who keeps seeing violet, rather than the usual running-theme in IJ of blue.
Violet
Streaks of earth matted in her hair
Beaten down, but she won’t scare
Blinks her eyes, battered green and blue
Ignorance can leave an awful bruiseSo get up!
Get up!
Come on and get up, Violet!Blade of grass in her aching fist
Sets her jaw, no she won’t quit
She’ll take the fight to streets and avenues
A little dirt can make a flower bloom
Anyhoo, the reading this week.
pp 711-714 More Blood Sister.
pp 714-716 Poor Tony has snatched purses and Kate Gompert is hurt while Ruth is in pursuit and there’s a creepy smell guy who yells about being “a witness”
pp 716-719 Randy Lenz again, delusional and high on coke, following some Chinese women and about to snatch their bags. Oh, we hope this dude gets what’s coming to him, in his sombrero and fake mustache.
719: AFR is going to get more agressive in trying to find the master copy of IJ the movie. Bad news for the family.
719-721 Poor Tony’s POV, running.
721-723 Marathe and Fortier in the Antitois, looking for tape, still
723 Fortier is the guy who came to Orin’s hotel door in past.
723-24 Joelle has dreams of teeth.
724-728: more in the Antitoi’s. FLQ is rival Canadian terrorists, whose dog Lenz killed. AFR has a teacher (Poutrincourt?) student (Wayne?) and new recruit (whom?) at ETA. Defensive in bed refers to something earlier about MIT being “in bed” with ONAN Defense.
728-729 Lenz has snatched bags and run, in same region as Poor Tony is running from Ruth.
729-735 Marathe pretending to be addict. The real note 304, which we now understand much better later. Who is Bernard Wayne, the one who didn’t jump? Creepy guy who talks to Marathe is Kate G’s witness.
736-747 Joelle cleaning while Marathe is downstairs, looking for her.
747-751 Marathe in Pat’s office, thinking about killing her, sees two blank smiley cartridges (promoted from ETA’s dumpster by Clenette presumably)
751-2 Joelle still cleaning.
752-755. Darnit, Marathe was the horrible person who killed the mute Antitoi brother. Sniff. Even if he has lost stomach for work, he still did it. Sigh.
That’s all I got for now. Late for work. What did everyone else think?
To end of section for next week, 808.
October 6th, 2015 at 10:37 am
Still got a little bit of Note 304 to revisit but it feels like the strands are coming together.
Parallels between Eschaton and Le Jeu du Prochain Train?