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This repeated abnegation of qualification is one of many figurations of a deeply problematic tendency to reject ideas of authority and authorship throughout the nonfiction, in ways that dovetail interestingly with the structural and vocal instability of the fiction.

"liebestod," meaning love-death, here is interesting; the connection of love with death further highlights the notion of death as a consummation

simultaneously aggravating and obviating the distinction between self and other

Wallace finds another way of resisting apocalyptic postmodern anomie

notwithstanding his particular idiolect