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| publication date = February 1, 1996
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[[David Foster Wallace]]'s relentless [[Doorstopper]] of a novel, first published in 1996. '''''Infinite Jest''''' takes place in [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|the not-too-distant future]], around the Enfield Tennis Academy and the neighboring Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House (redundancy ''sic'') in suburban [[Boston (useful notes)|Boston]]. Before he died, James Incandenza, founder of the ETA and film auteur, created a movie so mesmerizingly entertaining that the master copy is being sought as a weapon by Canadian terrorists and the US government. Dealing with issues like the nature of the self, family, emptiness and absence, addiction and recovery, and the minutia of tennis, there's just no way to adequately summarize this massively complex novel here. With nearly 100 pages of end notes, this may be one of the only novels for which you will need to use two bookmarks simultaneously.
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* [[College Radio]]
* [[Crapsack World]]
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* [[Dead Person Conversation]]: The wraith of James Incandenza may be visiting one or more of the other characters.
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: The Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House (''[[Running Gag|sic]]'').
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* [[Intoxication Ensues]]: One of Pemulis' preferred methods for exacting revenge is spiking your food or drink with something mind-altering. The guys also consider spiking the cooler at a big event with the DMZ, but think better of it.
* [[Jerkass]]: Orin Incandenza.
* [[Jigsaw Puzzle Plot]]: There's no picture on the box, and at least half of the pieces ''seem'' to be missing, but since nobody actually knows how many pieces there are ''supposed'' to be...
* [[Lady Drunk]]: Gately's mother, for one.
* [[Le Film Artistique]]: Much of James Incandenza's filmography.
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* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]
* [[The Metric System Is Here to Stay]]: Wallace had a definite preference for metric units, and in his universe, they've become standard in the U.S. (probably as a result of ONANite integration).
* [[Mind Rape]]: The last time we see {{spoiler|Orin Incandenza}}.
* [[Mushroom Samba]]: {{spoiler|John 'No Relation' Wayne}} gets dosed without his knowledge, and this is hinted as one possible cause for {{spoiler|Hal's final condition}} as well.
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** Orin counts as well.
* [[Serious Business]]: Tennis. But this is a tennis academy, after all.
* [[Shown Their Work]]: Contains more than the average human will ever want to know about tennis.
** Not to mention pharmaceuticals, in the end notes.
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