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reticular
Both Flesh and Not: Essays

Her world is "empty" of all but data that are like the holes in a reticular pattern

probably means "intricate" here

—p.90 The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress (73) by David Foster Wallace
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epistle

her objectless epistle "mirrors" it perfectly

referring to the text of WM (Kate's letter)

—p.88 The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress (73) by David Foster Wallace
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schizofy

Scholars tend to schizofy Wittgenstein, counterposing the "early" W of the Tractatus and the "late" W of the Investigations, The Blue and Brown Books, and Philosophical Investigations.

footnote 16

—p.86 The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress (73) by David Foster Wallace
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prenominate

The other side of the prenominate 2-bind--the side rendered explicitly by WM's opening and close--is why people who write need to do so as a mode of communication.

—p.83 The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress (73) by David Foster Wallace
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inditement

the conscious rendition of inditement not only rings true but serves essential functons

on Wittgenstein's Mistress

—p.81 The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress (73) by David Foster Wallace
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