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he demands compassion

The sink, with a gurgled sigh like almost mercy, overflows, emergency drain-slit and all, Sternberg's spent so unmercifully so much time in here. The water gurgles over the rim and onto the crotch of his gabardines. Great. That's just great. Now it looks like he's maybe wet himself. And what's he s…

—p.282 Girl with Curious Hair Westward the course of empire takes its way (231) by David Foster Wallace
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Sternberg's cyst inspo/characterisation topic/having-a-body

Cause it's only dark, generally, back there in his eye's guts. Sometimes a spidery system of synaptic color, if he tries to move the bad eye too quickly. But usually nothing. But it'll heal, anyway. It'll come around. It's all in his head, he knows. Youthful-rebellion injury. Mrs. Sternberg warned …

—p.280 Westward the course of empire takes its way (231) by David Foster Wallace
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unlimited credit

"But Miss this Visa has unlimited credit. Look--it's got 'LIMIT: SKY' printed right on it. Embossed."

—p.274 Westward the course of empire takes its way (231) by David Foster Wallace
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pay taxes, die archive/silicon-jest

[...] We just want to ride, dude. Gratis. To the Reunion. We just want to do the bare unavoidable minimum. Pay taxes, die. Sternberg has resentment even he can't see, it's so deep inside. So an ugly mood, and a desperate need to evacuate his body. It's loathsomely real, I'm afraid. But what's to be…

—p.269 Westward the course of empire takes its way (231) by David Foster Wallace
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But and so

But and so things are slow, and like you they have this irritating suspicion that any real satisfaction is still way, way off, and it's frustrating; but like basically decent kids they suck it up, bite the foil, because what's going on is just plain real; and no matter what we want, the real world …

—p.263 Westward the course of empire takes its way (231) by David Foster Wallace