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

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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hermeneutic

Jay subsumes everything his patients tell him to an already formed hermeneutic theory of truth

on Broom

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