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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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diegetic

the most conspicuous feature of Wallace's late fiction is its radical drawing out of the time of consciousness relative to the time of diegetic action

—p.61 The Zen of "Good Old Neon": David Wallace, Alan Watts, and the Double-Bind of Selfhood (57) by Christopher Kocela
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literature is a kind of conversation about loneliness

[...] Literature is a kind of conversation about loneliness. It creates flashes where I--the reader/the writer?--feel human and less alone. Where I feel alone and human. Where I feel inhuman. Feel that I do not feel. Feel the pain of not feeling anything to avoid feeling pain. Fiction is an illusio…

—p.55 David Foster Wallace, "The man who suffers and the mind which creates" (48) by Hadrien Laroche
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the pain of not feeling to avoid feeling pain

In Wallace's work, the antagonism of the man who suffers and the mind which creates becomes the one of the man who is suffering of the feeling of the absence of feelings. I believe that all of David Foster Wallace's prose is about the pain of not feeling to avoid suffering. _Or the pain of not feel…

—p.54 David Foster Wallace, "The man who suffers and the mind which creates" (48) by Hadrien Laroche