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.
, Read Infinite Jest twice, studied JOI filmography. 1  Infinite Jest explores the idea that all humans are addicts and examines how the chosen drugs (particularly entertainment) of late 20th century Americans eat them alive.