in portugese, to "post a gem" simply means to post. to them, all posts are gems. portugese posters go through life in a perpetual state of posting gems. we should all be so lucky.
Infinite Jest (whatever its strengths and weaknesses as literature) anticipates a quasi-encyclopedic, frenetic fragmentation of attention. If you truly wish to enter a profoundly meditative and nearly mystic simple presence to reality beyond the Internet read this instead:
The shiny bronze dish is upset, and the immortals’ dew spilled;
The bright jade cup is smashed, like broken coral.
I pity the narcissus for not being the orchid.