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tendentious
Consider David Foster Wallace

(appropriately for a piece against tendentiousness, the small details are unavoidable [...])

on Host's footnotes

—p.120 "Impervious to U.S. Parsing": Encyclopedism, Autism, and Infinite Jest (113) missing author
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mimetic

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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