Nerve gas, Weapon of chemical warfare that affects the transmission of nerve impulses through the nervous system.
According to Ryan Compton's Infinite Jest by the Numbers, Wallace used a vocabulary of 20,584 unique words to write the 577,608-word Infinite Jest. 10. 11. n+1 has a neat story about where the name for Michael Pemulis, Hal's drug-dealing friend at Enfield Tennis Academy, came from.
Either way, they get a hold of it, which means that â as far as the standard plot progression goes â the âbad guysâ actually win in the end of Infinite Jest. THE ENTERTAINMENT ANTIDOTE â An Entertainment antidote may or may not actually exist.