David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest Today
Well, we all know that Phil the rodent has awakened in his Punxsutawney burrow, ambled topside, cast his shadow, and gone back to sleep.
It’s fitting on a day in which a largish varmint shivs the meteorological time-space continuum that the popular time-space continuum-shivving show Lost returns to explode what’s left of our collective brains. When we last left the hapless survivors of Oceanic 815 they too had cut loose from the time-space continuum (ok, I’ll stop using that phrase cause I don’t really know what it means. I know it involves math and I have all the mathematical prowess of a weather-predicting whistle-pig).
Back on point: the whole O815 survivor group was stuck in the island’s past but their own biological present. They were in the midst of dropping an atomic bomb down the old hatch in hopes creating an explosion that would prevent their plane from crashing and thus reboot each of their individual history/time clocks and destroy/disrupt the Valenzetti Equation (the fictional Fibonnaci-esque number-sequence: 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 which recurs as part of the show’s motif).
Because dropping a thermonuclear warhead is always the answer.
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