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

the soporific death by comfort of contemporary America as embodied in the eponymous film

on IJ

—p.105 "Something to Do with Love": Writing and the Process of Communication (93) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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liminal

It is the liminal space between sincerity and truth that the short fiction so precisely depicts

esp his tendency to use first-person and even self-representative narrators

—p.101 "Something to Do with Love": Writing and the Process of Communication (93) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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abrogation

Like Barth, Wallace retained a belief in the author's power and responsibility [...] stopping short of wholesale mort d'author abrogation.

—p.100 "Something to Do with Love": Writing and the Process of Communication (93) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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eisegesis

this articulation on Wallace's part seems more eisegetical or even projective than accurate

on DFW saying that Wittgenstein was motivated by a horror of solipsism

—p.96 "Something to Do with Love": Writing and the Process of Communication (93) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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metastable

it can put "ironists" in danger of becoming what Sartre called "metastable"

on Lenore in Broom

—p.87 The Book, the Broom, and the Ladder: Grounding Philosophy (65) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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