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why is this story beginning to give me the creeps

[...] there was nothing the pathetic, paralyzed, helpless dentist could do about it; he was as inefficacious as he was inadequate."

"Jesus, Rick, what is this?"

"I promise we'll be able to relate to it. Let's just bear with. [...] she begins to offer less and less resistance to the malevolent…

—p.431 18 (418) by David Foster Wallace
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this was just her life now, here, didn't we know it

"[...] Even when it got real cool out on the porch of the place she'd wait, it turned out. She just kept looking at my Daddy like she didn't see what the problem was, this was just her life now, here, didn't we know it? While all the while we just stood around feeling terrible. [...]"

—p.416 17 (362) by David Foster Wallace
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a female at a hors d'oeuvre bar

But dancing was of course out of the question, and this girl in the throes of Rite of course either danced or installed herself in a social orbit around the hors d'oeuvre bar, and I will never ever again approach a female at a hors d'oeuvre bar.

—p.374 17 (362) by David Foster Wallace
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some Puberty-Rite function for his daughter

[...] Am invited by Rex Metalman to a cotillion for his daughter, Melinda Susan Metalman. (Was it a real cotillion? Why can't I remember?) Am invited by Rex Metalman to some Puberty-Rite function for his daughter.

—p.373 17 (362) by David Foster Wallace