Intros are hard

Infinite Jest is my white whale. I've tried to read it so many times but I always get stuck. I don't know what it is, loving the book on principle but being humbled by its reality. Relevant to us, though, is it's huge number of footnotes. It's a key feature of the book, where the content of the footnotes sometimes take us the audience on a journey far away from the context of the page that it is pretending to help explain. Indeed, some of the footnotes have their own footnotes…