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attestation
The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace: Language, Identity, and Resistance

Lenore's self-assurance--or what Ricoeur would call her attestation--grows over the course of the novel

—p.128 Narcissism, Alienation, and Commun(al)ity (111) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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inchoate

We use narrative to create an ordered "human time" out of the inchoate, uncontrollable cosmic time

—p.121 Narcissism, Alienation, and Commun(al)ity (111) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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cathexis

It is about cathecting enough other people and enough of the world

in an email to Robert K Bolger, on AA (in Gesturing Toward Reality p45)

—p.119 Narcissism, Alienation, and Commun(al)ity (111) by David Foster Wallace
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onomastic

a kind of onomastic genealogy that literalizes the Wittgensteinian concept of family relationships

on the relation between Kopek (i.e., cents) to Ruble (i.e., dollars) in Broom

—p.116 Narcissism, Alienation, and Commun(al)ity (111) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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protean

failing better is the only way to make (contingent, endlessly protean) meaning

—p.109 "Something to Do with Love": Writing and the Process of Communication (93) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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