linguistic recursion
something DFW (author) likes to do a lot, especally in The Depressed Person (section)
something DFW (author) likes to do a lot, especally in The Depressed Person (section)
The apotheosis of this technique is "The Depressed Person."
on recursion
The little slip is telling, and the word abreactive, too
defined in a footnote (from the OED); referring to a scene in Brief Interviews
If Wallace insists on awareness, his particular creed is--to use a Wallacerian word--extrorse; awareness must move always in an outward direction, away from the self.
in mad cadenzas of simian gibberish that break suddenly into glorious soliloquies, then plunge again into nonsense
quoting from a negative review of Brief Interviews in the NYT