This woman has been slowly eating Infinite Jest for a year

Infinite Jest, David Foster Walace’s massive 1,079-page tome, is one of the most beloved books of this millennium, but it is also one that through sheer dint of its size has taken on almost religious reverence. Perhaps through a sort of literary Stockholm syndrome, people that read Infinite Jest tend to worship it afterwards; it becomes an accomplishment and source of perpetual reference-dropping, because if it didn’t achieve such heights, well, that was a huge waste of time.
Comedian Jamie Loftus has spent a large amount of time consuming Infinite Jest, too, in a delightful performance piece that seems engineered to enrage the book’s acolytes. To celebrate one year of slowly eating the book she cut together a video of her slowly eating the book. Here, watch her eat the book: