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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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Rortian relativism
David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing": New Essays on the Novels

—p.18 David Foster Wallace and the Novel of Ideas (3) by Adam Kelly
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dialogic

never seen this word used before but the meaning can be inferred

—p.12 David Foster Wallace and the Novel of Ideas (3) by Adam Kelly
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dialectic

truly dialectical thinking requires that the artist address his or her moment as part of a constantly shifting history

—p.10 David Foster Wallace and the Novel of Ideas (3) by Adam Kelly
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hermetic

hermetic, enclosed, and self-referencing fictional structures

quoting Marshall Boswell (Understanding DFW I think?)

—p.9 David Foster Wallace and the Novel of Ideas (3) by Marshall Boswell
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Menippean satire

the novel's debt to the genre of Menippean satire

on Broom

—p.8 David Foster Wallace and the Novel of Ideas (3) by Adam Kelly
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