The Crying of Lock 49

David Foster Wallace's writing about recovery had a lot more emotional resonance those are the parts of infinite jest. I read pension before reading much other post-modern fiction so that was sort of my introduction to this whole world, he says. When you read Gravity's Rainbow you really start to understand these conspiracy theories that started to emerge because it requires encyclopedic knowledge of 20 or 30 completely unrelated disciplines and no single human being could have possibly written this text.