Definitive Jest

Definitive Jest is a vocabulary-building and SNOOT-approved word-of-the-day blog centered around David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest.

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Sunday, 16 March 2025

One more time, from the beginning

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 "As verbose as [Infinite Jest] is, and as long as it is, it never wants to punish you for some knowledge you lack, nor does it want to...
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Tuesday, 24 December 2024

2025?

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 To anyone still reading this... It's been a while.  Over a decade, I'm surprised to see.  I've really enjoyed getting the occas...
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Sunday, 22 December 2013

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Entry : depredation (n.) In context :  "'...bemoaning the depredation of the Swiss land...'" Definition :  The actio...
Saturday, 21 December 2013

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Entry : Anschluss (n.) In context :  "'It is a long story to the side of this story, but my part of the Swiss nation is in my tim...
Friday, 20 December 2013

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Entry : rococo (adj.) In context :  See previous. Definition :  Designating furniture, architecture, etc., characterized by an elaborat...
Thursday, 19 December 2013

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Entry : buttresses (v.) In context :  "'or then the type who sort of overelaborates on the lie, buttresses it with rococo forma...
Wednesday, 18 December 2013

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Entry : Kamikaze (n.) In context :  "'Then there are what I might call your Kamikaze -style liars.'" Definition :   ‘...
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