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The JEsuit delivers a peroration on the necessity of the "leap outward" into adulthood

[...] Brief Interviews presents many characters seeking to secure victory over skepticism and thereby over their dependence on other people and on the external world - a view from "forever overhead," as it were. In criticzing this aspiration - a criticism carried out not through analysis but via …

A solution to this problem might seem to be to deny that the judgment of others has anything to do with who we are or what we mean - that is, to decisively privilege our "inner" selves over the self that we expose to the public. But this option, sometimes associated with romanticism or modernism in…

[...] The stillness and enclosedness of the poet's environment reflects an inner condition of decadent self-satisfaction, which Wallace depicts as stagnant or lifeless. Iannis Goerlandt says that "one of the points the story makes is that the end lies in this stasis, not in death itself." The story…