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.
The Longest Science Fiction Books of All Time. David Foster Wallace killed himself on my birthday earlier this month. Out of curiosity I decided (not for the first time) to start reading his novel Infinite Jest. After I complete it, it will be the longest book I have ever read.