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...epiphany came a decade ago, when as a free-lance writer he stumbled into the Well, cyberspace's oldest and best-known hole-in-the-wall. For whatever reasons, online communication tends to be a dissent amplifier. You say something half in jest; the bad half gets picked up and further inflamed. The next thing you know, war has erupted, and people end up not talking for a year. Rheingold took it on himself to parachute in and reconnect disembodied souls...
...socialist. Whatever people think of the President's tacking to accommodate the polls, a large majority are certain that Mrs. Clinton is an old-fashioned liberal. So recall what she said at a Democratic fund-raiser last spring (no matter that her aides insist she was speaking in jest). "Give Bill a second term, and I will be turned loose to do what we really want...
...like it to be known that I actually graduated from here," McNealy joked in reference to Gates, who did not finish his undergraduate education at Harvard. "I'm still trying to make up for the two-and-a-half year head start," he added in jest. --By Amita Shukla
...chronicle is the sorry saga of Don Gately, a former burglar and reformed drug addict who would rather suffer the agony of a gunshot wound than risk getting rehooked by pain killers. Ghosting through both densely detailed narratives is a group of legless Quebec separatists tasked with stealing Infinite Jest. They want to use its deadly amusing powers as a weapon. Filmmaker James Incandenza, was so entertained that he committed suicide by sticking his head in a hot-wired microwave oven...
Wallace juggles all this and more with dizzying complexity. You can sign on for the long haul or wait for some post-Pynchon academic to parse it out. Or you can just wade in, enjoy Wallace's maximalist style and hope that unlike the fatal film, Infinite Jest, the novel won't ... ARRRRRRGH...