Chapter six opens with pemulis scoring some doze of the Madam Psychosis (DMZ), followed by Hal’s personal narration of the movie Tennis and the Feral Prodigy made by his own brother Mario.
Then we see a transcripts of recordings made by alcohol and drug addicts including Patricia Montesian's Log at Ennet House, and quickly we go back to Madam Psychosis.
The entire chapter seem to be focused about the Ennet house, including a very detailed description of each room and its residents.
Pemulis finally reveals where he scored the DMZ from, and it turned out to be from one of the Candian separatist groups that we’ve recently introduced to in the last chapters.
And finally we meet Joelle Van Dyne, the main protagonist and star of Jim Incandenza's movies, who goes to Molly’s thesis party where she attempts to overdose.
Special note:
Neil wanted to share this message to everyone because it sheds light it's about the mystery of the circles we’ve all been wondering about that.
"Hi Neil,
I recently heard of this endeavor and have enjoyed checking out the recordings. You all are having all kinds of fun with it! I just wanted to help out if I can by clarifying what's up with those circles that seem to be confusing everybody. I'd figured it out a little bit on my own halfway through the book, but Greg Carlisle lays it out with certainty in his book Elegant Complexity.
Instead of using numbers or titles, the circles simply designate the chapters, each of which explores a consistent theme. They're an appropriate symbolic allusion to one of Infinite Jest's major themes, circles and cycles. There are 28 of them too, which is the same as the number of days in a lunar cycle, further indicating the hidden ubiquity of cycles.
You've probably already realized that ideas in the book aren't being revealed linearly, so numbering and titling the chapters would only have served to defeat that intentional arrangement. The chapters are sub-divided into sections, or scenes, by triple-line-spaces, and are sometimes introduced with centered all-caps text that functions like a "title over" in a movie to provide additional information for that scene alone. It's up to you to remember such information if that scene continues later. I suppose Wallace expected readers to be able to figure all of this out eventually, but it's very confusing, not to mention terribly distracting, at the beginning of the book when you don't know what's going on. I hope this helps! By all means share this however you wish.
-Tim"
For more details, here’s the recording to the entire session of the second steemit Book Club:
https://soundcloud.com/user-655948001/infinite-jest-session-6-of-the-steemit-book-club
Details for the next meeting:
Book: Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Reading Assignment: Chapter Six “YEAR OF THE DEPEND ADULT UNDER-GARMENT” (pages 219-258)
Date: Monday, April 24th
Start Time: 6:00 p.m. PST / 9 p.m. EST / 2 a.m. GMT
Call Length: One hour.
Phone Access: (800) 719-6100 or (218) 339-7800, access code 629-1831#
Web Audio Access (sound quality isn't generally as good as phone): https://hello.freeconference.com/conf/call/6291831
P.S. You can these links to help guide you as you read Infinite Jest:
http://faculty.sunydutchess.edu/oneill/Infinite.htm (THIS LINK HAS SPOILERS)
http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=Main_Page#Page_by_Page_Annotations (No spoilers---This is the link Ahmed mentioned on the first call.)
Best,
@neilstrauss, @the-alien and the #steemit-book-club
Hi guys, really funny recording 🙂
Hope everyone stays invested and sees the book through to the end; in the spirit of the journey I've elected not to read any of the links above that include spoilers.
This is Craig, @scan0017 , you'll recognize my voice as the one speaking at the beginning of this call.
Hope everyone on the call replies so we can demonstrate a unified vibe as it feels/sounds/looks like we are a smaller group than with Ulysses.
😘
I am unifyling trying to finish this book before my art of fcuk it comes into play. I forgot there was one other book I didn't finish. The Bourne Ultimatum because they stole his wife..... again. I was reading that book not listening. I might just start tossing my keys under my bed and asking my ceiling to give me the strength to finish this _____ing book. (Thats a reference to future parts of this book). I believe we are up to where the book kind of got interesting for me hopefully you guys caught stuff I missed which I am sure you have.
Hey 👋
I'm writing this on an older post so it remains 'somewhat' private but I know you'll be alerted to the message on your comment feed.
Is this Adil(sp?)?)
This is Craig, looks like email addresses were lost in translation, I haven't received an email from you and the one I sent you came back due to misspelling.
Would love to get on the email chain for Infinite Jest but want to make sure my address goes to the right person 🙂
Hey Craig, yeah it's me.
Yeah the email I sent you didn't arrive either. :( Is it @mn.edu?
Oh amazing!!! 😀😀😀
Wicked man! 🤝 Glad to know you brother!
Ok, since this is an old and hopefully buried-in-history link, my email is
[email protected]
OLD email address (23 years) that I've been able to keep by guarding it 😉 so it's never spammed or abused.
Thank you so much Adil for all you do with the book club (AND Steemit!) - you and Neal have added a richer layer of complexity to my already awesome life 😊
Cheers brother! 🤜🤛
Hey, if you like to laugh, follow me @scan0017
I only post interesting and funny stuff, I think you'll enjoy what you read 😉
You're way too kind Craig! I do what I can to help :) It's great to do this bookclub with all of you. We learn so much together!
Yeah I follow you of course :)
Email noted, I will send the chain then tomorrow to everyone, thanks again man!
Awesome!
Looking forward to Mondays call 😀
Looking forward to it too!
I will send the emails this afternoon, and post last week's call today :)
👍😊