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ErroneousBosh 4 days ago

I never really understood Infinite Jest, and I've tried to read it several times over the past couple of decades. I don't really get on with the "wacky wacky wacky" nonsense humour, and the constant sesquipedalian polysyllablism in every incongruent sentence makes it read like it was written by a smartarse 14-year-old who has just found they can look up long words in a thesaurus and thinks it makes them sound clever.

It's hard work to read with no payoff, I guess unless you like endless drivelling descriptions of drug use, which I don't.

reassess_blind 3 days ago | parent [-]

“sesquipedalian polysyllablism”. One might have the same critiques about your word choice.

ErroneousBosh 2 days ago | parent [-]

Do you think there might have been a reason why I wrote that way?

Hint: this question is easy if you passed high school English.