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interstice

These interstices where Wallace scholarship can find something like the new voices we are being told it so desperately needs?

—p.94 David Foster Wallace and Music: The Grunge Writer and the Hitherto Criminally Overlooked Importance of Signifying Rappers (89) by Tony McMahon
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diegetic

the most conspicuous feature of Wallace's late fiction is its radical drawing out of the time of consciousness relative to the time of diegetic action

—p.61 The Zen of "Good Old Neon": David Wallace, Alan Watts, and the Double-Bind of Selfhood (57) by Christopher Kocela
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Klieg light

Wallace worked on his final novel under the klieg lights of his own substantial reputation

—p.11 Author Here: The Legal Fiction of David Foster Wallace's The Pale King (9) by Marshall Boswell
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scabrous

in his scabrous takedown of John Updike's Toward the End of Time

—p.10 Author Here: The Legal Fiction of David Foster Wallace's The Pale King (9) by Marshall Boswell
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calembour

Eco sees the pun or calembour as the key feature of Joyce's ambiguous and ever changing novels

—p.3 Introduction (1) by Béatrice Pire, Pierre-Louis Patoine
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