tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-850460519986732757.post3830600365487843871..comments2023-06-30T08:58:35.666-05:00Comments on Good Lieutenant: Black, Billowing, Shapeless.Matt Desmondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05049817294442385108noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-850460519986732757.post-77650238479832932512008-09-17T09:27:00.000-05:002008-09-17T09:27:00.000-05:00Dude, it's so much more complicated than that. Inf...Dude, it's so much more complicated than that. <I>Infinite Jest</I> is the title of the movie-within-the-novel that will kill you if you watch it a la Videodrome--and said movie was made by the book's Ghostly Dead Father Character, who, yes, killed himself. By sticking his head in a microwave. (!) And whose widow immediately marries his brother, or something like that. So the "hero" is sort-of-Hamlet, but he's also Prince Hal/Henry V--his <I>name</I> is "Hal" and he's got a Falstaff whom he has to reject at the end. To no real purpose, though, since he doesn't get to be king, and the book never actually ends. <BR/><BR/>This would be insufferable, but there are lots of jokes. And tennis. And drugs. Oh, the drugs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-850460519986732757.post-52352627684959788822008-09-15T23:54:00.000-05:002008-09-15T23:54:00.000-05:00i agree. as soon as i heard about this, i thought...i agree. as soon as i heard about this, i thought, whoa, what does Desmond Dog think of this news? i didn't have to go far for a quote though: <BR/>"That skull had a tongue in it and could sing once.."<BR/><BR/>and when he starts talking about Yorick? damn. i usually got chills before (mostly because the gravedigger is one of the few people Hamlet actually has a normal conversation with) but i always forget where so much of these words and titles come fromdavid james keatonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05492042454085415129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-850460519986732757.post-30183606910885578022008-09-15T12:36:00.000-05:002008-09-15T12:36:00.000-05:00nicely done ol' chapnicely done ol' chapadamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08276758770253146926noreply@blogger.com