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This strategy, which I have termed "skeletal narrative," is one whereby Wallace destabilizes a narrative by means of elements embedded within the narrative itself

a sort of iteration of the dialethic imperative of deconstruction, such that every text, every narrative, every theory, contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction

The deadening logorrhea of failed communication is the endgame of late postmodernist literature

Lenore's self-assurance--or what Ricoeur would call her attestation--grows over the course of the novel

We use narrative to create an ordered "human time" out of the inchoate, uncontrollable cosmic time