Nerve gas, Weapon of chemical warfare that affects the transmission of nerve impulses through the nervous system.
According to Ryan Compton's Infinite Jest by the Numbers, Wallace used a vocabulary of 20,584 unique words to write the 577,608-word Infinite Jest. 10. 11. n+1 has a neat story about where the name for Michael Pemulis, Hal's drug-dealing friend at Enfield Tennis Academy, came from.
What follows is Dave Eggersâs complete review of Infinite Jest as it originally appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle: AMERICA IN 2010: EVERYONEâS HOOKED ON SOMETHING Novel portrays an escapist culture in which we are willing to die for pleasure. INFINITE JEST by David Foster Wallace Little, Brown; 1,087 pages $29.95. REVIEWED BY DAVE EGGERS