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as a term of adjudication, "'value' sidesteps some of the metaphysics that makes pure aesthetics such a headache"

"casino capitalism", a description of finance thas grown increasingly common since 2008's gambles were revealed

as in the Infinite Jest word-inflation scene to which this paratactic bathroom moment is kin

nod to Freud's unheimlich, which arises out of a feeling of resemblance between experiences and phenomena that ought not to exist, according to the conscious mind

Wallace [...] submits readily to analysis in terms of what Gerard Genette calls paratexts