Wasn't really sure what to make of Pale King in the end, so I started reading bits of Infinite Jest for a second time - it's so much more illuminating the second time around. Lots of parts I still left me confused though. One thing I thought was interesting is how you'd get different characters being described by others in exactly the same way or doing exactly the same thing.
I'm not explaining that well but the parts that spring to mind are the whole thing about a character having an anxiety about there being a finite number of erections in the world - this is first mentioned near the start:
"Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an erotically circumscribed G.W. Pabst scholar at New York University tortured by the neurotic compulsion that there are only a finite number of erections possible in the world at any one time.."
And then i'm sure Joelle mentions the same thing w/r/t Himself near the end.
And I'm sure there's at least two mentions of two different characters trying to lift up a chair while standing on it.
There's definitely more but I can't recall them now. But really, what's all that about?