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

Wallace revealed that he structured Infinite Jest like a Sierpinski gasket

—p.x Preface: David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing" (vi) by Marshall Boswell
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mediated

she's receiving heavily mediated data

quoted from Conversations With p. 34

—p.ix Preface: David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing" (vi) by David Foster Wallace
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writ large

—p.ix Preface: David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing" (vi) by Marshall Boswell
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heterodox

its sprawling treatment of such heterodox themes

on The Broom of the System

—p.viii Preface: David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing" (vi) by Marshall Boswell
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synecdoche

they necessarily make extensive use of synecdoche

quoting Edward Mendelson's essay on Gravity's Rainbow (p30)

—p.viii Preface: David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing" (vi) missing author
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