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this guy whose name was Bernard but insisted on being called Plasmatron-7, right after old Plasmatron-7 drank nine bottles of NyQuil in the men’s upstairs head and pitched forward face-first into his instant spuds at supper and got discharged on the spot, and got fireman-carried by Calvin Thrust right out to Comm. Ave.’s Green Line T-stop

Appears several times in Infinite Jest[1]QuentinUK (talk) 10:19, 11 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Regardless of the other merits of including that, since the entire "B" branch runs down Commonwealth Avenue that reference isn't clear enough to identify which station it's talking about. TheCatalyst31 ReactionCreation 12:40, 11 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I disagree - David Foster Wallace is meticulous about his references. In the context of the story, it is very clearly Warren Street and not any other stop. Certainly worth a sentence and maybe a blockquote in the article. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 04:22, 19 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]