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bombast
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

Definitely overeducated, supercilious, and full, initially, of bombastic opinions about the girl

—p.292 Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: The Difficult Gifts of David Foster Wallace (255) by Zadie Smith
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linguistic recursion

something DFW (author) likes to do a lot, especally in The Depressed Person (section)

—p.275 Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: The Difficult Gifts of David Foster Wallace (255) by Zadie Smith
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apotheosis

The apotheosis of this technique is "The Depressed Person."

on recursion

—p.274 Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: The Difficult Gifts of David Foster Wallace (255) by Zadie Smith
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abreaction

The little slip is telling, and the word abreactive, too

defined in a footnote (from the OED); referring to a scene in Brief Interviews

—p.270 Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: The Difficult Gifts of David Foster Wallace (255) by Zadie Smith
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extrorse

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.

—p.266 Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: The Difficult Gifts of David Foster Wallace (255) by Zadie Smith
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