Resisting Life as a Figurant and Infinite Jest

I love Infinite Jest . One of its most powerful lectures comes from a father — not unlike Polonius&rsquo; speech in Hamlet — delivering a wish that the addressed choose a better, wiser path in life: one that avoids merely acting in the scenery of life, for living it. In short, the listener and the reader are asked to avoid being figurants . &hellip;you can&rsquo;t appreciate the dramatic pathos of…