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David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing": New Essays on the Novels
by Marshall Boswell

David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing": New Essays on the Novels
by Marshall Boswell

David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing": New Essays on the Novels
by Marshall Boswell

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horizontic (en)

not sure - like horizontal?

70

horizontic collection of low-level risk and isolation

—p.70 Modeling Community and Narrative in Infinite Jest and The Pale King (61) by Andrew Warren
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horizontic collection of low-level risk and isolation

—p.70 Modeling Community and Narrative in Infinite Jest and The Pale King (61) by Andrew Warren
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irruptions (en)

a sudden and violent entry, or breaking in (differs from eruption, which is breaking out)

72

physic irruptions

—p.72 Modeling Community and Narrative in Infinite Jest and The Pale King (61) by Andrew Warren
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physic irruptions

—p.72 Modeling Community and Narrative in Infinite Jest and The Pale King (61) by Andrew Warren
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lisle (en)

a kind of lacy fabric

79

so that the white stockings' rich violinish curves at the top of the insides of her legs in that white lisle are visible in backlit silhouette

quoted from IJ

—p.79 Modeling Community and Narrative in Infinite Jest and The Pale King (61) by David Foster Wallace
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so that the white stockings' rich violinish curves at the top of the insides of her legs in that white lisle are visible in backlit silhouette

quoted from IJ

—p.79 Modeling Community and Narrative in Infinite Jest and The Pale King (61) by David Foster Wallace
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embrasure (en)

a beveled window, as in a castle

79

an embrasure of sad windowlight shines through her legs

quoted from IJ

—p.79 Modeling Community and Narrative in Infinite Jest and The Pale King (61) by David Foster Wallace
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an embrasure of sad windowlight shines through her legs

quoted from IJ

—p.79 Modeling Community and Narrative in Infinite Jest and The Pale King (61) by David Foster Wallace
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prefigure (en)

(verb) be an early indication or version of (something).

80
—p.80 Modeling Community and Narrative in Infinite Jest and The Pale King (61) by Andrew Warren
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—p.80 Modeling Community and Narrative in Infinite Jest and The Pale King (61) by Andrew Warren
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figurant (en)

an originally French word that means extra (as in a theatrical production); related words "unfiguranted" and "figurantless" mean "without anonymous extras" (where everyone is a protagonist of sorts)

80

figurantless crowds

quoted from IJ

—p.80 Modeling Community and Narrative in Infinite Jest and The Pale King (61) by David Foster Wallace
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figurantless crowds

quoted from IJ

—p.80 Modeling Community and Narrative in Infinite Jest and The Pale King (61) by David Foster Wallace
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eschatology (en)

the part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind

86

Referring at once to the persistence of eschatological discourse despite the failure of the prophesied apocalypse ever to arrive

—p.86 "Then Out of the Rubble": David Foster Wallace's Early Fiction (85) by Bradley J. Fest
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Referring at once to the persistence of eschatological discourse despite the failure of the prophesied apocalypse ever to arrive

—p.86 "Then Out of the Rubble": David Foster Wallace's Early Fiction (85) by Bradley J. Fest
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reifying (en)

make (something abstract) more concrete or real

87

the reifying shackles of apocalyptic discourse

—p.87 "Then Out of the Rubble": David Foster Wallace's Early Fiction (85) by Bradley J. Fest
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the reifying shackles of apocalyptic discourse

—p.87 "Then Out of the Rubble": David Foster Wallace's Early Fiction (85) by Bradley J. Fest
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liminal (en)

ambiguous; occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold

88

she is a liminal horizon the novel repetitively posits

—p.88 "Then Out of the Rubble": David Foster Wallace's Early Fiction (85) by Bradley J. Fest
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she is a liminal horizon the novel repetitively posits

—p.88 "Then Out of the Rubble": David Foster Wallace's Early Fiction (85) by Bradley J. Fest
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semiotics (en)

the study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation (adj: semiotic)

88

semiotic square

—p.88 "Then Out of the Rubble": David Foster Wallace's Early Fiction (85) by Bradley J. Fest
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semiotic square

—p.88 "Then Out of the Rubble": David Foster Wallace's Early Fiction (85) by Bradley J. Fest
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