Welcome to Rehab: Session Six of the Second Steemit Book Club, Plus Details for Session Seven

Chapter six opens with pemulis scoring some doze of the Madam Psychosis (DMZ), followed by Hal’s personal narration of the movie Tennis and the Feral Prodigy made by his own brother Mario.

Then we see a transcripts of recordings made by alcohol and drug addicts including Patricia Montesian's Log at Ennet House, and quickly we go back to Madam Psychosis.

The entire chapter seem to be focused about the Ennet house, including a very detailed description of each room and its residents.

Pemulis finally reveals where he scored the DMZ from, and it turned out to be from one of the Candian separatist groups that we’ve recently introduced to in the last chapters.

And finally we meet Joelle Van Dyne, the main protagonist and star of Jim Incandenza's movies, who goes to Molly’s thesis party where she attempts to overdose.

Special note:

Neil wanted to share this message to everyone because it sheds light it's about the mystery of the circles we’ve all been wondering about that.

"Hi Neil,

I recently heard of this endeavor and have enjoyed checking out the recordings. You all are having all kinds of fun with it! I just wanted to help out if I can by clarifying what's up with those circles that seem to be confusing everybody. I'd figured it out a little bit on my own halfway through the book, but Greg Carlisle lays it out with certainty in his book Elegant Complexity.

Instead of using numbers or titles, the circles simply designate the chapters, each of which explores a consistent theme. They're an appropriate symbolic allusion to one of Infinite Jest's major themes, circles and cycles. There are 28 of them too, which is the same as the number of days in a lunar cycle, further indicating the hidden ubiquity of cycles.

You've probably already realized that ideas in the book aren't being revealed linearly, so numbering and titling the chapters would only have served to defeat that intentional arrangement. The chapters are sub-divided into sections, or scenes, by triple-line-spaces, and are sometimes introduced with centered all-caps text that functions like a "title over" in a movie to provide additional information for that scene alone. It's up to you to remember such information if that scene continues later. I suppose Wallace expected readers to be able to figure all of this out eventually, but it's very confusing, not to mention terribly distracting, at the beginning of the book when you don't know what's going on. I hope this helps! By all means share this however you wish.

-Tim"

For more details, here’s the recording to the entire session of the second steemit Book Club:

https://soundcloud.com/user-655948001/infinite-jest-session-6-of-the-steemit-book-club

Details for the next meeting:

Book: Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Reading Assignment: Chapter Six “YEAR OF THE DEPEND ADULT UNDER-GARMENT” (pages 219-258)
Date: Monday, April 24th
Start Time: 6:00 p.m. PST / 9 p.m. EST / 2 a.m. GMT
Call Length: One hour.
Phone Access: (800) 719-6100 or (218) 339-7800, access code 629-1831#
Web Audio Access (sound quality isn't generally as good as phone): https://hello.freeconference.com/conf/call/6291831

P.S. You can these links to help guide you as you read Infinite Jest:
http://faculty.sunydutchess.edu/oneill/Infinite.htm (THIS LINK HAS SPOILERS)
http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=Main_Page#Page_by_Page_Annotations (No spoilers---This is the link Ahmed mentioned on the first call.)

Best,

@neilstrauss, @the-alien and the #steemit-book-club