Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

cartridge in and scan
     just enough of its contents to determine whether it is irritating or of an irrelevant
     nature and not entertaining or engaging in any way. He will heat the prepared
halal
lamb and spicy
halal
garnish in the microwave oven until piping-hot, arrange it attractively on his tray,
     preview the first few moments of the puzzling and/or irritating or possibly mysteriously
     blank entertainment cartridge first, then unwind with the news summary, then perhaps
     have a quick unlibidinous look at
Nass
’s spring line of sexless black devout-women’s-wear, then will insert the recursive
     surf-and-rain cartridge and make a well-deserved early Wednesday evening of it, hoping
     only that his wife will not return from her tennis league in her perspiration-dampened
     black ankle-length tennis ensemble and remove his dinner tray from his sleeping neck
     in a clumsy or undeft fashion that will awaken him, potentially.
    When he settles in with the tray and cartridge, the TP’s viewer’s digital display
     reads 1927h.
YEAR OF THE TRIAL-SIZE DOVE BAR
    Wardine say her momma aint treat her right. Reginald he come round to my blacktop
     at my building where me and Delores Epps jump double dutch and he say, Clenette, Wardine
     be down at my crib cry say her momma aint treat her right, and I go on with Reginald
     to his building where he live at, and Wardine be sit deep far back in a closet in
     Reginald crib, and she be cry. Reginald gone lift Wardine out the closet and me with
     him crying and I be rub on the wet all over Wardine face and Reginald be so careful
     when he take off all her shirts she got on, tell Wardine to let me see. Wardine back
     all beat up and cut up. Big stripes of cut all up and down Wardine back, pink stripes
     and around the stripes the skin like the skin on folks lips be like. Sick down in
     my insides to look at it. Wardine be cry. Reginald say Wardine say her momma aint
     treat her right. Say her momma beat Wardine with a hanger. Say Wardine momma man Roy
     Tony be want to lie down with Wardine. Be give Wardine candy and 5s. Be stand in her
     way in Wardine face and he aint let her pass without he all the time touching her.
     Reginald say Wardine say Roy Tony at night when Wardine momma at work he come in to
     the mattresses where Wardine and William and Shantell and Roy the baby sleep at, and
     he stand there in the dark, high, and say quiet things at her, and breathe. Wardine
     momma say Wardine tempt Roy Tony into Sin. Wardine say she say Wardine try to take
     away Roy Tony into Evil and Sin with her young tight self. She beat Wardine back with
     hangers out the closet. My momma say Wardine momma not right in her head. My momma
     scared of Roy Tony. Wardine be cry. Reginald he down and beg for Wardine tell Reginald
     momma how Wardine momma treat Wardine. Reginald say he Love his Wardine. Say he Love
     but aint never before this time could understand why Wardine wont lie down with him
     like girls do their man. Say Wardine aint never let Reginald take off her shirts until
     tonight she come to Reginald crib in his building and be cry, she let Reginald take
     off her shirts to see how Wardine momma beat Wardine because Roy Tony. Reginald Love
     his Wardine. Wardine be like to die of scared. She say no to Reginald beg. She say,
     if she go to Reginald momma, then Reginald momma go to Wardine momma, then Wardine
     momma think Wardine be lie down with Reginald. Wardine say her momma say Wardine let
     a man lie down before she sixteen and she beat Wardine to death. Reginald say he aint
     no way going to let that happen to Wardine.
    Roy Tony kill Dolores Epps brother Columbus Epps at the Brighton Projects four years
     gone. Roy Tony on Parole. Wardine say he show Wardine he got some thing on his ankle
     send radio signals to Parole that he still here in Brighton. Roy Tony cant be leave
     Brighton. Roy Tony brother be Wardine father. He gone. Reginald try to hush Wardine
     but he can not stop