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    Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
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    Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace is a vast and sprawling novel that delves into themes of addiction, recovery, popular entertainment, and tennis. The book's 981 pages, along with extensive endnotes, present a labyrinthine mass of plot lines that intersect in intricate ways, revealing linguistic complexities and stylistic experimentation for which Wallace is renowned. The narrative threads, though disjointed at times, come together towards the end, offering a fictional DSM IV of American malaise and serving as a deep reflection on communication and human nature.

    3 E.T.A. is laid out as a cardioid, with the four main inward-facing bldgs. convexly rounded at the back and sides to yield a cardioid's curve, with the tennis courts and pavilions at the center and t...

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