Holy fucking shit, that's some pretty lofty company!
As fate and/or planetary alignments and/or freshly-mined crypto-randomness would have it, I did manage to read a bit of each in the increasingly distant past... (and somewhat ashamed to admit I never did finish "Infinite Jest"...) so I suppose it's possible *maybe* a *little* rubbed off....
<tries his best to muster a 'lil confidence>