DFW

"What looks like the cage's exit is actually the bars of the cage" 222

"The encaged and suicidal" 224

"Dealers, sirens of the other, second cage" 224

"Joelle's been in a cage since Y.T.S.D.B." 227

"Set free the encaged rapacious thing inside" 229

"The difference between suicide and homicide consisting [...] in where you think you discern the cage's door" 230

"The blind god of all doorless cages" 231

"[Cocaine] had been not just her encaging god, but her lover" 235

"A foreign academic with an almost Franciscan bald spot has the swirling limp of someone with a prosthesis" 229

Mother-death-cosmology 230

Entropy: fans - 233 "everything falls off the wall sooner or later" 235

"Putting ? after THE END" 235

"Entertainment is blind" 237

"These are facts. This room in this apartment is the sum of very many specific facts and ideas. There is nothing more to it than that" 239 (Wittgenstein)

"The Prize" 239

Iona 273

Morris Code 275

Individual v. Group 82-83

Without a thought 27, 44

- from index to Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace. I'm stunned at the sudden loss of this fiercely intelligent and laceratingly funny writer.