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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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mimetic
Consider David Foster Wallace

postmodern writing "turns out to be mimetic after all [...]"

quoting Brian McHale in Postmodernist Fiction

—p.112 "Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain Borders": Chaos and Realism in Infinite Jest (101) missing author
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ergodic literature

as Espen Aarseth says of ergodic literature

—p.108 "Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain Borders": Chaos and Realism in Infinite Jest (101) missing author
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dialectic

fuses the game's dialectic of order and flux

on Hal's disposition in tennis in IJ

—p.104 "Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain Borders": Chaos and Realism in Infinite Jest (101) missing author
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cantilever

Mario Incandenza's stance when braced against his cantilevered police lock

—p.92 Infinite Jest: Triangles, Cycles, Choices & Chases (89) by David Hering
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exoteric

always on the cusp of erupting into the exoteric environment

on consciousness, as represented by Wayne's rant in IJ

—p.87 The Ideal Athlete: John Wayne in Infinite Jest (75) by Gregory Phipps
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