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amanuensis

LBJ's not-very-secretly-gay amanuensis

on Lyndon

—p.59 Editing Wallace: An Interview with Michael Pietsch (59) by Rick Moody
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gloaming

I remember us "huddled" in the gloaming going to gloom.

interesting alliteration, not sure if I feel it though

—p.51 Footnotes & Endnotes (51) by Michael Martone
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Freytag's pyramid

which is based on Freytag's Pyramid

I'm sure I knew this term once but I guess I had forgotten it, which is incredibly embarrassing

—p.33 Wallace's Infinite Fiction (33) by Greg Carlisle
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writ large

Wallace frankly invites his readers to conflate Nechtr's conflicted feelings about Professor Ambrose with his own misgivings about Barthian metafiction writ large

—p.31 Heading Westward (28) by Marshall Boswell
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indelibly

Wallace's own struggle with John Barth's indelible influence on his own fiction, all in accordance with Harold Bloom's theory of artistic anxiety and influence, which the novella both employs and parodies.

on GCH

—p.31 Heading Westward (28) by Marshall Boswell
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