Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace A clock in Subsidized TimeThis stretch of the day is brought to you by the
Year of Glad
Main text
and 00 seconds
The novel keeps 388 endnotes in the back. This clock spreads them across the day, one every three minutes and forty-three seconds or so, which leaves the time itself as the main text and puts everything of interest in the notes.
Up the hill · E.T.A.
Asleep, mostly
Down the hill · Ennet House
The night desk