Reading Infinite Jest: Reading and erotic pleasure

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Reading and erotic pleasure

I know Abbot - I really should get back to the task at hand - reading IJ - but I'm really starting to get into this book I randomly plucked off of my buddy's shelf.

From this book I have for instance already learned that focusing on the relationship between literature and psychoanalysis shifts our attention from "a dynamics of desire animating narrative and the construal of it's meanings to the objects of desire, specifically the human body" and that there is an "analogy between reading and erotic pleasure...".

Is that why I feel so turned on by the thought of reading my days away in this book-lined apartment in canadascapital?

All right - time for a little DFWIJ now...

2 comments:

Mr AshdaleMarch 19, 2009 at 10:22 PM
Eww.

Aforementioned Slate discussion of Jest now posted. Might perk you up. If you do perk up though, please god no picture.
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John VivantMarch 22, 2009 at 3:09 PM
I'd never cross that line. This is an educational site and I am at heart a prudish pedagogue.
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Infinity:

n., pl. -ties.
The quality or condition of being infinite.
Unbounded (Pages?) space, time, or quantity.
An indefinitely large number or amount.
Mathematics. The limit that a function f is said to approach at x = a when f(x) is larger than any preassigned number for all x sufficiently near a.
A range in relation to an optical system, such as a camera lens, representing distances great enough that light rays reflected from objects within the range may be regarded as parallel.
A distance setting, as on a camera, beyond which the entire field is in focus.

Baroque:

adj.
- characteristic of a style in art and architecture developed in Europe from the early 17th to mid-18th century, emphasizing dramatic, often strained effect and typified by bold, curving forms, elaborate ornamentation, and overall balance of disparate parts.

- Music. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a style of composition that flourished in Europe from about 1600 to 1750, marked by expressive dissonance and elaborate ornamentation.

- Extravagant, complex, or bizarre, especially in ornamentation: “the baroque, encoded language of post-structural legal and literary theory” (Wendy Kaminer).

- Irregular in shape: baroque pearls.

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