INFINITE JEST: Questions

ha ha, my browser is poorly and I read through half of this before realizing it was all old stuff I'd avoided for spoiler reasons. Still haven't reached the digging-up-head bit, but I keep thinking of Riddley Walker and the story of St. Eustace--subsistence farmers in post-apocalyptic England trying to decode nuclear physics through this half-remembered bastardized Christian myth of "Eusa", and that psychedelic freakout, the "tel" (one of Hoban's amazing puns, "tell" and "tele-"--in reverse order, transmission and interpretation) that ends with him saying EUSAS HEAD IS DREAMING US. I keep anticipating this scene, and knowing nothing about it, and thinking about James Incandenza's synapse-bursting entertainment, and thinking INCANDENZA'S HEAD IS DREAMING US. And wondering what will happen when I can put the scenes up against each other for real.

Martin,

I think we all missed the digging up JOIs head part the first time around. It's referenced in the first twenty pages thereabouts - toward the end of the section where Hal is getting carted away in the ambulance.

ha ha, awesome. I was definitely still just in "riding the tide of words" mode then. It isn't developed further later on?

Don't quote me (you can probably quote pyro or Sutpen) but I'm pretty sure that's the only mention of it.

If I had my IJ concordance handy I could tell you for a fact.

5:
It's referenced again towards the end.

**SPOILERS. AND NOT JUST ON THE HEAD THING**

Gately has a vision of the scene when he's hallucinating in the hospital. You don't get much more information, though.