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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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Sherwood Anderson
David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing": New Essays on the Novels

listed by DFW as a great fiction writer

—p.64 Modeling Community and Narrative in Infinite Jest and The Pale King (61) by David Foster Wallace
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William Gaddis

listed by DFW as a great fiction writer (by last name only)

—p.64 Modeling Community and Narrative in Infinite Jest and The Pale King (61) by David Foster Wallace
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exformation

defined as "not giving all the information needed to make sense of something and leaving it up to the reader to think about how this might work"; a common strategy of DFW's

—p.53 Boredom, Irony, and Anxiety: Wallace and the Kierkegaardian View of the Self (43) by Allard Pieter den Dulk
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figurant

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quoted from IJ. I think DFW coined this word

—p.39 Wallace and Empathy: A Narrative Approach (23) by David Foster Wallace
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vacillate

—p.39 Wallace and Empathy: A Narrative Approach (23) missing author
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