Wallace finds another way of resisting apocalyptic postmodern anomie
referring to BI and his use of a monologue/dialogue hybrid
Randall [...] has an elevated opinion of his own intellectual standing. [...] unnecessary Latin phrases, italicization, and the use of exaggerated inverted commas as a sort of conversational crutch, ostensibly indicating his disdain for contemporary argot, but actually revealing a narrator uncomfor…
notwithstanding his particular idiolect
Skeletal narrative refers to a strategy by which Wallace embeds the seeds of textual and interpretive unraveling within the narrative voice of a story; a narrator (often but not always first-person) begins to tell a story, but through asides of tonal slippage reveals another layer of narrative under the surface, ultimately losing control of the primary narrative vocabulary and confessing or revealing what was hidden.
esp in Oblivion, Smithy, Squishy, Suffering Channel, etc. even in Rick's sections in Broom
