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David Foster Wallace's Balancing Books: Fictions of Value

Wallace's IRS heroes hew toward transcendence through immanence, down in their holes

—p.226 E Pluribus Unum (198) by Jeffrey Severs
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Bellerophon

a print of the seal [...] shows "the mythic hero Bellerophon slaying the Chimera [...]"

quoted from TPK

—p.226 E Pluribus Unum (198) by Jeffrey Severs
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solecism

Solecisms are always meaningful in Wallace

forgot what it meant

—p.224 E Pluribus Unum (198) by Jeffrey Severs
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somatic

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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