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etiology

Wallace's etiology of his own biased perspective is neither cure nor excuse for its intransitiveness

on DFW's awareness of his cultural position and privilege

—p.42 "It's Just the Texture of the World I Live in": Wallace and the World (41) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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lacuna

it leaves large lacunae in the untold period

on IJ ending without closure

—p.39 "I'm a Man of My--" Wallace and the Incomplete (21) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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syllogistic

in mutual syllogistic refutation

—p.36 "I'm a Man of My--" Wallace and the Incomplete (21) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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prelapsarian

the antithesis to some prelapsarian sort of creative production

—p.36 "I'm a Man of My--" Wallace and the Incomplete (21) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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limn

to call the frame into question is to show that the frame never quite contained the scene it was meant to limn

quoting Judith Butler, Frames of War, p9

—p.28 "I'm a Man of My--" Wallace and the Incomplete (21) missing author
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