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emerging from the dark backward and abysm of the human mind

this line seems kinda ESL tbh

—p.183 Representations of Trauma in David Foster Wallace's Oblivion (172) missing author

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syncopated by commas

on a passage in Oblivion with lots of commas

—p.182 Representations of Trauma in David Foster Wallace's Oblivion (172) missing author

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the recent connubial tensions

on the story Oblivion

—p.181 Representations of Trauma in David Foster Wallace's Oblivion (172) missing author

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Wallace's narratives aver that a self-licensed ignorance of one's situation/condition can all too readily be transformed into a kind of moral oblivion

on Oblivion

—p.180 Representations of Trauma in David Foster Wallace's Oblivion (172) missing author

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[...] What's so terrifying about the narrator's nightmares of adult life, over and above the supernatural horrors of The Exorcist, consists in the grim fact that there can be no maternal reassurance that there exists "nothing like what you just dreamed in the real world" (106).

—p.180 Representations of Trauma in David Foster Wallace's Oblivion (172) missing author

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