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I don’t want to be sitting on the edge of my seat topic/literary-theory

[...] the track is not for staying on, it’s for leaping off and then returning to. The notion of the page-turner always seemed foreign to me. I don’t want to be sitting on the edge of my seat waiting to find out what happened next. I want to be falling off my seat in ecstatic pain because of what l…

—p.315 Bomb: The Author Interviews Sam Lipsyte and Christopher Sorrentino (305) missing author
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fatuous

lots of the things that exist in big cities are equally fatuous

—p.313 Sam Lipsyte and Christopher Sorrentino (305) by BOMB Magazine
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virgule

the virgule we use to represent a line break in prose is the same glyph we use to indicate alternatives, the "either / or."

—p.299 Ben Lerner and Adam Fitzgerald (295) by Ben Lerner
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polysemous

experiences his incompetence as ambiguity or polysemy in Spanish

—p.299 Ben Lerner and Adam Fitzgerald (295) by Ben Lerner
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apophatic

rethink ontology through an existence awareness and demonstration of lexical instability (cue apophatic poetics)

i know what all the words mean, and yet...

—p.298 Ben Lerner and Adam Fitzgerald (295) by BOMB Magazine
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