INFINITE JEST: influences
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2slickdpdx
Most great fiction authors seem to labor under the influence of one or two fixed ideas, to borrow an old-fashioned term. Wallace has that too, but what is really interesting is how many he has and how odd they are.
3MeditationesMartini
> 2 nice. I guess one would be how not to let the heroic and necessary capacity for restraint interfere with the heroic and necessary capacity for action--what separates Don Gately from Hal, and makes him the novel's moral hero (as opposed to Hal, its existential hero?). Lots of people have commented on the similarities with Hamlet, but in this particular sense the novel's kind of squaring the circle between Hamlet and Othello--the problems of action v. those of paralysis.
