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[...] it is not only by emphasizing simplicity and sincerity that Wallace's AA plays its central role in Infinite Jest's philosophical therapy; it is rather by advancing a picture of thought, and of philosophy, that will seem unfamiliar and perhaps initially banal to most of his readers. The idea…

—p.67 Ordinary Unhappiness: The Therapeutic Fiction of David Foster Wallace Playing Games: Infinite Jest as Philosophical Therapy (39) by Jon Baskin
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the umpire whispers Please Play inspo/dream

In this dream, which every now and then still recurs, I am standing publicly at the baseline of a gargantuan tennis court. I'm in a competitive match, clearly: there are spectators, officials. The court is about the size of a football field, though, maybe, it seems. It's hard to tell. But mainly th…

—p.67 by David Foster Wallace
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we are not aroused inspo/dream

I have a truly horrible dream which invariably occurs on the nights I am Lenoreless in my bed. I am attempting to stimulate the clitoris of Queen Victoria with the back of a tortoise-shell hairbrush. Her voluminous skirts swirl around her waist and my head. Her enormous cottage-cheese thighs rest h…

—p.44 The Broom of the System 3 (28) by David Foster Wallace