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

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

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

some bit of absurdity or contradiction in the catechism

Something about his world feels wrong; it is a world compressed between grays and greens, and the pallid daylight in nondescript Mega City, USA blends uncannily into the neon glow of the MS-DOS underworld he haunts after hours