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Corporeal Punishment inspo/characterisation topic/having-a-body

[...] Ironically, a good part of his anticorporeal stance (it was his idea to call having a body Corporeal Punishment) derives from his _non_fatal flaw, the skin trouble, the skin trouble itself deriving from a weekend years past, just before a cattle call for a Wisk spot he didn't get, a weekend o…

—p.262 Girl with Curious Hair Westward the course of empire takes its way (231) by David Foster Wallace
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deeply ambivalent about being embodied inspo/characterisation topic/having-a-body

Eyes the broad-shouldered faceless character that symbolizes Men's Room, does Sternberg, and struggles with himself. He's needed a bowel movement for hours, and since the LordAloft 7:10 lifted things have gotten critical. He tried, back at O'Hare. But he was unable to, because he was afraid to, afr…

—p.254 Westward the course of empire takes its way (231) by David Foster Wallace
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Sternberg's eye

What's contemporarily tragic about Sternberg is that he has a fatal physical flaw. One of his eyes is turned completely around in his head. From the front it looks like a boiled egg. It won't come back around straight. It's like an injury. It's incredibly bad for his ambitions as a commercial a…

—p.250 Westward the course of empire takes its way (231) by David Foster Wallace
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life goes on archive/silicon-jest

Life goes on. You're empty, sad, probably the least appreciated creative virtuoso in the industry; well and but life just goes on, emptily, sadly, with always direction but never center. The hubless wheels spins ever faster, no? Yes. Admen approach challenges thus: concede what's hopelessly true,…

—p.240 Westward the course of empire takes its way (231) by David Foster Wallace
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yes and but

By now Mark and D.L. were being seen together. Why? [...]

Yes and but he, Mark: why?

—p.237 Westward the course of empire takes its way (231) by David Foster Wallace