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I'm considering Infinite Jest. I've read DFW's shorter pieces before, but never an undertaking this large. Anyone else tried it? Should I get a hard copy to help slog through the voluminous footnotes?
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"When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”--Abraham Lincoln
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