Context: A Supposedly Fun Thing I 'll Never Do Again : Essays and Arguments is a 1997 collection of nonfiction writing by David Foster Wallace . In the title essay , originally published in Harper 's as `` Shipping Out '' , Wallace describes the excesses of his one - week trip in the Caribbean aboard the cruise ship MV Zenith , which he rechristens the Nadir . He is ironically displeased with the professional hospitality industry and the `` fun '' he should be having and explains how the indulgences of the cruise turn him into a spoiled brat , leading to overwhelming internal despair . Wallace uses footnotes extensively throughout the piece for various asides . Another essay in the same volume takes up the vulgarities and excesses of the Illinois State Fair . This collection also includes Wallace 's influential essay `` E Unibus Pluram '' on television 's impact on contemporary literature and the use of irony in American culture ., Infinite Jest is a 1996 novel by American writer David Foster Wallace. The lengthy and complex work takes place in a North American dystopia, centering on a junior tennis academy and a nearby substance-abuse recovery center. The novel touches on many topics, including addiction and recovery, suicide, family relationships, entertainment and advertising, film theory, United States-Canada relations (as well as Quebec separatism), and tennis. The novel includes 388 endnotes that cap almost a thousand pages of prose, which, together with its detailed fictional world, have led to its categorization as an encyclopedic novel., David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962  September 12, 2008) was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist, as well as a professor of English and creative writing. Wallace's 1996 novel "Infinite Jest" was cited by "Time" magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005., Creative writing is any writing that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, or technical forms of literature, typically identified by an emphasis on narrative craft, character development, and the use of literary tropes or with various traditions of poetry and poetics. Due to the looseness of the definition, it is possible for writing such as feature stories to be considered creative writing, even though they fall under journalism, because the content of features is specifically focused on narrative and character development. Both fictional and non-fictional works fall into this category, including such forms as novels, biographies, short stories, and poems. In the academic setting, creative writing is typically separated into fiction and poetry classes, with a focus on writing in an original style, as opposed to imitating pre-existing genres such as crime or horror. Writing for the screen and stagescreenwriting and playwrightingare often taught separately, but fit under the creative writing category as well., Subject: a supposedly fun thing i'll never do again, Relation: follows, Options: (A) 12 (B) 1923 (C) 1996 (D) 2008 (E) a (F) almost (G) as one (H) be (I) complex (J) development (K) dystopia (L) february (M) focus (N) infinite jest (O) is (P) it (Q) north (R) novel (S) or (T) original (U) pages (V) poetics (W) recovery (X) september (Y) short stories (Z) style ([) tennis (\) the definition (]) this (^) time (_) together (`) united (a) work (b) works (c) world
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