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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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DFW's four distinct styles

We published "Mr. Squishy" with the fake name, but I don't think we fooled anyone for very long. Dave had at least four distinct styles, maybe more, but "Mr. Squishy" was written in his most recognizable. (OK, acknowledging that this is ill-thought-out and incomplete, a stab at his four most clear-…

—p.40 Sonora Review DFW Tribute Recollection (38) by Dave Eggers
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Freytag's pyramid

which is based on Freytag's Pyramid

I'm sure I knew this term once but I guess I had forgotten it, which is incredibly embarrassing

—p.33 Wallace's Infinite Fiction (33) by Greg Carlisle
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writ large

Wallace frankly invites his readers to conflate Nechtr's conflicted feelings about Professor Ambrose with his own misgivings about Barthian metafiction writ large

—p.31 Heading Westward (28) by Marshall Boswell
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