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• ↓ Infinite Jest Extraction
• ↓ Notes on Afghanistan
• ↓ Notes on Tunisia
• ↓ Conquest of the Incas
• ↓ Notes on Trinidad and Tobago
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"Writing on books, experiments, and random things I can't stop thinking about"

"I read David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest via audiobook, which at the default speed, takes over 52.5 hours. On paper, the book is usually over 1,100 pages, including its 388 endnotes."

"I’ve written about books before, but these essays are so long and so much of them are devoted to summarizing the texts that I don’t really consider them reviews. I think of them more as extractions, as attempts to capture the value of the books in the most dense and entertaining way possible. Writing is a method of processing information, and I feel like I have a better grasp of the life of Napoleon and the Incan conquests because I wrote about them."

"I’m not sure there has ever been a book written anywhere in the world at any point in human history that is better suited to an extraction essay than Infinite Jest. It is a vast, opaque, and impenetrable work from the outside, and actually sitting down to read it doesn’t clarify its meaning so much as bury you in it. It’s a true classic novel in the sense that it’s a book that everyone wants to have read but nobody wants to read."

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Infinite Jest Extraction

Notes on Afghanistan

Notes on Tunisia

Conquest of the Incas

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