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fiction itself is "dialogical," not just in the Bakhtinian sense that it gives credence to contradictory voices or viewpoints

framing the modern white-collar worker in a sharp, dangerous mandorla of refracted light

The consistency of his architectural mien is admirable

Wallace leaves the guy there, crucified in the shape of an X, a chiasmus, a portrait of profound stuckness

convey his taciturn, laconic character