Activity

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

a sincere naïf in the mold of Mario and Stecyk

a sense of caritas underwritten by eros