Where Orin’s work-study assignment is to turn on the sprinklers “that were already on automatic timers” • where he first sees Joelle van Dyne, the P.G.O.A.T. • and where a “destiny-grade event” leads to his role as punter with the B.U. Terriers football team.
Boston University closed its football program in 1997, one year after Infinite Jest was published.
