David Foster Wallace, the Monk, and the Bridge Option

Also introducing the Holy Fool, Hume, and Punic Options

David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest is so quixotically massive and absurd, the average reader today could easier read Cervantes. I’m on my third try and continue to bog down in the book’s stylistic unorthodoxy and endless footnotes. If it weren’t for the book’s frequent chuckles that serve as oxygen shots to the brain, I would’ve suffocated before page…