David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest (1996) derives its title from the first scene of the fifth act of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. “Let me see,” says Hamlet, taking in his hand a skull, “Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times, and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is!