Editing Infinite Jest (section)

==Plot==
There are several major interwoven narratives, including:<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |year=2012 |title=Multiple narrative disentanglement: Unraveling ''Infinite Jest'' |encyclopedia=Proceedings of the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies |publisher=Association for Computational Linguistics |last=Wallace |first=Byron C. |pages=1–10}}</ref>
* A fringe group of [[Québécois people|Québécois]] radicals, {{Lang|fr|Les Assassins des Fauteuils Rollents}} ({{Lit|The Wheelchair Assassins}}; A.F.R.), plan a violent coup to free Quebec from O.N.A.N.
* Addicts living in Boston reach "rock bottom" with substance abuse before entering a residential drug and alcohol recovery program, Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House, where they progress in recovery through [[Alcoholics Anonymous]] (AA) and [[Narcotics Anonymous]] (NA).
* Students train and study at the Enfield Tennis Academy (E.T.A.), founded by James Incandenza and now run by Avril Incandenza and Avril's adopted brother Charles Tavis.
* The personal drama of the Incandenza family centers around Hal's struggles to live up to high expectations of academic and athletic success amid wider dysfunction.

These narratives are connected via a film, ''Infinite Jest'', also called "the Entertainment" or "the [[samizdat]]". The film is so compelling that its viewers lose all interest in anything other than repeatedly viewing it, and thus eventually die. It was James Incandenza's final work. He completed it during a period of sobriety that was insisted upon by its lead actress, Joelle van Dyne. The Québécois separatists seek a replicable master copy of the work to aid in acts of terrorism against the United States. The United States Office of Unspecified Services (O.U.S.) aims to intercept the master copy to prevent mass dissemination and the destabilization of the Organization of North American Nations, or else to find or produce an anti-entertainment that can counter the film's effects. Joelle seeks treatment for substance abuse problems at Ennet House. A.F.R. member (and possible O.U.S. double agent) Rémy Marathe visits Ennet House, aiming to find Joelle and a lead to the master copy of "the Entertainment".

Wallace compared the novel's structure to a [[Sierpiński triangle|Sierpiński gasket]], a type of [[fractal]]. He said the book's "chaos is more on the surface" and that it had a coherent structure despite its seemingly disjointed plot.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/26/infinite-jest-david-foster-wallace-20th-anniversary-20-things-need-know | title=Infinite Jest at 20: 20 things you need to know | work=The Guardian | date=February 26, 2016 | last1=Leith | first1=Sam }}</ref>