Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Author:David Foster Wallace
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3, pdf
ISBN: 9780316066525
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 2006-11-13T08:00:00+00:00

SELECTED SNIPPETS FROM THE INDIVIDUAL-RESIDENT-INFORMAL-INTERFACE MOMENTS OF D. W. GATELY, LIVE-IN

STAFF, ENNET HOUSE DRUG AND ALCOHOL RECOVERY

HOUSE, ENFIELD MA, ON AND OFF FROM JUST AFTER the BROOKLINE YOUNG PEOPLE'S AA MTNG. UP TO ABOUT 2329H., WEDNESDAY 11 NOVEMBER Y.D.A.U.

'I don't know why all this shit about wanting to hear about the football all the time. And I'm not going to make my goddamn muscle. It's stupid.’

'Okey-doke.’

'It's inappropriate, since you like words like that.’

'But this Sharing and Caring Commitment guy, the Chair, the Sudbury Half-Measures Avail Us Nothing Group, he had a power about him. The Chair, he said he used to be a nuclear auditor. For the Defense industry. This man who was very quiet and broken-seeming and fatherly and strange. There was this kind of broken authority about him.’

'I know what you mean. I can I.D.’

'... that seemed fatherly somehow.’

'The sponsor type. My sponsor's like that, Joelle, in White Flag.’

'Can I ask? Is your own personal Daddy still alive?’

'I dunno.’

'Oh. Oh. My mother's dead. Worm-farming. My own personal Daddy's still sucking air, though. That's how he puts it — still sucking air. In Kentucky.’

'...’

'My mother's a worm-farmer from way back, though.’

'But so what about this Half Measures guy hit you so hard?’

'Harrd. Harrrrrd. Sound it out.’

'Real funny.’

'Don well it started out as that he spoke about himself like he used to be somebody else. Like a whole different person. He said he used to wear a four-piece suit and the fourth piece was him.’

'An Allston Group guy says that all the time, that joke.’

'He had on a real nice white thick-weave cotton shirt opened at the throat and wheat-colored pants and loafers without socks, which I'm up here ten years Don and I still can't follow this thing up here about y'all all wearing nice shoes and then wrecking them by wearing them without socks.’

'Joelle, you're maybe about the last person to be taking somebody's inventory about weird ways they dress, under there, maybe.’

'Kiss my rosy red ass, maybe.’

'Remind me to Log how it's real positive to see you coming out of this shell of yours.’

'Well and I got reservations on this Don but Diehl and Ken are telling me to come in to you with this issue of what's like occurring out there which Erdedy says it's a Staff-type issue and duh-duh duh-duh.’

'Had a little coffee tonight have we Foss?’

'Well Don and like you know and duh-duh.’

'Take a second. Inhale and blow out. I'm not going anywheres.’

'Well Don I hate a cheese-nibbler much as the next man but Geoff D. and Nell G. are out in the living room going around to all the new people asking them to think about if their Higher Power is omni-potent enough to make a suitcase that's too heavy for him to lift. They're doing it to everybody that's new. And that skittery kid Dingley —’

'Tingley. The new kid.’

'Well Don he's sitting in the linen closet with his legs sticking out of the linen closet with his eyes bugging out with like

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