Don Gately's stepfather, for example, is a vicious alcoholic who records every drink he has in his notebook. Anhedonia is a “low-grade” type of depression, an emptiness, contrasted with the “literally horrible” psychic pain of “predator-grade” psychotic depression (695).ĢAlways self-aware, Wallace himself engages in this obsession with data through his own data-retrieval writing style while simultaneously criticizing the potentially dangerous addiction to data storage. It's a kind of emotional novocaine” ( Infinite Jest 692). 1Wallace defines anhedonia as “a kind of spiritual torpor in which one loses the ability to feel pleasure.
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