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and but that

[...] one John Connor; and but that apparently the Resistance itself somehow gets one-time-only access to Skynet's time-travel technology [...]

—p.179 Both Flesh and Not: Essays The (As It Were) Seminal Importance of Terminator 2 (177) by David Foster Wallace
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real sexuality is about our struggles to connect

[...] Deep down, we all know that the real allure of sexuality has about as much to do with copulation as the appeal of food does with metabolic combustion. Trite though it (used to) sound, real sexuality is about our struggles to connect with one another, to erect bridges about the chasms that sep…

—p.172 Back in New Fire (167) by David Foster Wallace
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a study in missed connection

[...] there are just as many furtive-looking parties standing at the edges asking whether anyone passing by has an extra ticket for sale, or would like perhaps to sell their own, as there aer scalpers. The scalpers and weird people asking to be scalped seem not even to notice one another, all of th…

—p.144 Democracy and Commerce at the U.S. Open (127) by David Foster Wallace
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the socioeconomic aura of the U.S. Open

[...] there is indeed about the Stadium crowd down here something indefinable that strongly suggests Connecticut license plates and very green lawns. In sum, the socioeconomic aura here for the day's headline match is one of management rather than labor.

—p.131 Democracy and Commerce at the U.S. Open (127) by David Foster Wallace
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women as perceived entities

[...] what's less clear and way richer is the peculiar slant "omniresponsibility" takes when the responsible monad in question is historically passive, per- and & conceived as an object and not a subject--i.e., when one is a woman, who can effect change & cataclysm not as an agent but merely as a…

—p.99 The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress (73) by David Foster Wallace