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(adjective) of, relating to, or suggestive of Bishop Berkeley or his system of philosophical idealism, whose fundamental proposition can be summed up as "esse est percepi" (Latin for "To be is to be perceived")

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Imagine a Berkeleyan esse-est-percipi universe in which God is named Nielsen.

great quote in general

—p.49 Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young (37) by David Foster Wallace
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Imagine a Berkeleyan esse-est-percipi universe in which God is named Nielsen.

great quote in general

—p.49 Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young (37) by David Foster Wallace
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the part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind

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lose any sense of eschatology, thus of teleology

—p.51 Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young (37) by David Foster Wallace
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lose any sense of eschatology, thus of teleology

—p.51 Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young (37) by David Foster Wallace
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unable to be resisted or avoided; inescapable

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an ineluctably conditioned part of a pop-dominated culture

—p.52 Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young (37) by David Foster Wallace
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an ineluctably conditioned part of a pop-dominated culture

—p.52 Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young (37) by David Foster Wallace
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(adjective) highly pertinent or appropriate; apt

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There's a marvelously apposite Heidegger quotation here, but I'll spare you.

love this quote. referring to our literary innocence being taken away without anything substantial to replace it

—p.66 Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young (37) by David Foster Wallace
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There's a marvelously apposite Heidegger quotation here, but I'll spare you.

love this quote. referring to our literary innocence being taken away without anything substantial to replace it

—p.66 Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young (37) by David Foster Wallace
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a novel in which real people or events appear with invented names

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These novels carve out for themselves an interstice between flat-out fiction and a sort of weird cerebral roman à clef.

—p.74 The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress (73) by David Foster Wallace
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These novels carve out for themselves an interstice between flat-out fiction and a sort of weird cerebral roman à clef.

—p.74 The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress (73) by David Foster Wallace
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(noun) in philosophy: a property (as redness) considered apart from things having the property; individual instances of subjective, conscious experience

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the piquant qualia of a lived, albeit bizarrely lived, experience

—p.77 The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress (73) by David Foster Wallace
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the piquant qualia of a lived, albeit bizarrely lived, experience

—p.77 The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress (73) by David Foster Wallace
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(noun; historical; law) the deliberate concealment of one's knowledge of a treasonable act or a felony; (literary) Harold Bloom's term for when strong writers misinterpret their literary predecessors so as to clear imaginative space for themselves

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(noun) an anatomical band or encircling ridge (plural: cingula)

referring to the verb "indite", which means to compose or write, or to treat in a literary composition

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the conscious rendition of inditement not only rings true but serves essential functons

on Wittgenstein's Mistress

—p.81 The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress (73) by David Foster Wallace
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the conscious rendition of inditement not only rings true but serves essential functons

on Wittgenstein's Mistress

—p.81 The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress (73) by David Foster Wallace
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(adjective) previously mentioned / (verb) to mention previously

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The other side of the prenominate 2-bind--the side rendered explicitly by WM's opening and close--is why people who write need to do so as a mode of communication.

—p.83 The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress (73) by David Foster Wallace
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The other side of the prenominate 2-bind--the side rendered explicitly by WM's opening and close--is why people who write need to do so as a mode of communication.

—p.83 The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress (73) by David Foster Wallace
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