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

another suggestion that somatic costs and monetary compensation do not balance

referring to a quote of DFW's dismissing the idea of being paid to undergo pain (i.e., taking an advance on a book)

—p.219 E Pluribus Unum (198) by Jeffrey Severs
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imbroglio

Fogle endures a legal imbroglio after his father's death

—p.218 E Pluribus Unum (198) by Jeffrey Severs
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sundered

the American social contract is being sundered

—p.218 E Pluribus Unum (198) by Jeffrey Severs
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Thoreauvian

endorsement of essentially Thoreauvian economic values

—p.216 E Pluribus Unum (198) by Jeffrey Severs
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figurant

to reinforce the sense that the anonymous many (the figurants?) who make up his audience had a place in his text

—p.210 E Pluribus Unum (198) by Jeffrey Severs
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