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in ways that are hard even to name archive/silicon-jest

[...] In fact, the likeliest reason why so many of us care so little about politics is that modern politicians make us sad, hurt us deep down in ways that are hard even to name, much less talk about. It’s way easier to roll your eyes and not give a shit. You probably don’t want to hear about all th…

—p.187 Consider the Lobster and Other Essays Up, Simba (156) by David Foster Wallace
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carefully stoic archive/silicon-jest

[...] NBC camera tech Jim C., who has a bad case of the Campaign Flu, pouring more blood-red tincture of elderberry into a bottle of water, his expression carefully stoic because the elderberry remedy’s been provided by his wife, who happens to be the NBC crew’s field producer and is right across t…

—p.185 Up, Simba (156) by David Foster Wallace
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where has everyone gotten these flags

The overall point being that on Wednesday here there’s a weird accretive pressure to have a flag out. If the purpose of displaying a flag is to make a statement, it seems like at a certain point of density of flags you’re making more of a statement if you don’t have a flag out. It’s not totally cle…

—p.130 The View from Mrs. Thompson's (128) by David Foster Wallace
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ad hominem

If for any reason you happen to find yourself sharing this particular student’s perceptions and reaction, I would ask that you bracket your feelings just long enough to recognize that the PWM instructor’s very modern rhetorical dilemma in that office was not much different from the dilemma faced by…

—p.117 Authority and American Usage (66) by David Foster Wallace
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single spasmodic shudder

An actor named Jim Buck wins AVN’s Gay Performer of the Year Award, and you better believe yr. corresps. sit bolt upright when the person who appears onstage to accept the award is a pink and leptosomatic 4'10" and is wearing an Eton collar and appears, even under 125X binoculation, to be a twelve-…

—p.47 Big Red Son (3) by David Foster Wallace