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ars poetica
David Foster Wallace's Balancing Books: Fictions of Value

in this essay that led him into the writing of Infinite Jest lies an allegorical ars poetica

—p.9 Introduction: A Living Transaction (1) by Jeffrey Severs
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enervating

The effect of such forces is, for his characters, enervating

I always think it means the opposite

—p.4 Introduction: A Living Transaction (1) by Jeffrey Severs
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polysemous

For Wallace, value, kept loose and polysemous, could connect depression's internal discourse

—p.2 Introduction: A Living Transaction (1) by Jeffrey Severs
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atman
Buddhism Plain and Simple

The atman was thought to be eternal.

—p.119 by Steve Hagen
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bunyanize

We tend to bunyanize the people we admire.

—p.82 by Steve Hagen
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