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tarrying
David Foster Wallace's Balancing Books: Fictions of Value

He updates the Sartrean trope of endless tarrying in hell by moving it to the marketplace

—p.244 Conclusion (244) by Jeffrey Severs
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dialectic

Drinion represents a key synthesis in the novel's man/machine dialectic

—p.235 E Pluribus Unum (198) by Jeffrey Severs
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Mammon

a "hobby" Dean, a Christian, perhaps invoking biblical maxims about God and mammon, finds "debased and distorted"

Lane Dean's views on coin-collecting

—p.230 E Pluribus Unum (198) by Jeffrey Severs
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Emersonian

Sylvanshine, a failed Emersonian at the end

something to do with Emerson's view on self-reliance?

—p.229 E Pluribus Unum (198) by Jeffrey Severs
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syncretism

But in the syncretic ritual context

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—p.228 E Pluribus Unum (198) by Jeffrey Severs
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