Though she has vowed to never read the book, Loftus says that eating Wallace's most highly regarded work has brought her closer to it, emotionally and intellectually. She is one year into the venture and estimates she has eaten 25 percent of the book so far. After a long conversation with poison control, in which many employees expressed their disapproval of her plans, Loftus was able to confirm that the acid content of the pages would not permanently damage her insides, as long as she took it slow. It was rather the rabid, pseudo-intellectual (or in her words, "chode") fan base the book has developed that sparked her desire to physically consume Infinite Jest out of spite. I didn't prepare an artist statement before I turned the book into a bong, and I will readily admit that I was not intending to produce a piece of serious journalism when I did it.
I get a lot of emails from 20-something dudes angrily explaining to me why smoking weed out of Infinite Jest is "not journalism" and MFA students asking me how turning Infinite Jest, which specifically tackles the subject of marijuana addiction, into a bong has altered my "relationship with the work." I have no idea how to respond to either type of email. Have I entirely resigned to it? Yes, I have.īeing a writer known primarily for desecrating a classic work of literature can get pretty bizarre. Since documenting the experience in a blog post for Broadly, I've been made well aware that the world will remember me as "the girl who smoked weed out of Infinite Jest after turning it into a pipe" when I am old and dead. Last year, I smoked weed out of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest after turning it into a pipe.
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