At issue is an act of painful balance and ratiocination

Broom thus offers a bracingly Rabelaisian account of a postmodern capitalism

built over centuries a secular infrastruture predicated on damning the preterite

[...] the drug's use of "cattle-endocrine derivative" (B 149) suggests, via the etymological links between cattle and capital the making of humans themselves into pliable capital.

the way this state was historically hewn out of the wilderness

"[...] ousia taken as oikos, everyday household life, house and hearth"

Wallace's thinking was almost always about immanence

Rick's R.V. initials [...] translate to random variable in mathematical parlance, whereas Lenore often has the qualities of a constant.

there is no way to do real work and thus provide real value or energy, Wallace's onomastics imply, without pulling one's weight

To be aware of the central Wallace trope of memento mori is not to take up Yorick's skull

The Stonecipheco minion Neil Obstat Jr., meanwhile, is named for the phrase of papal censorship, nihil obstat ("nothing hinders"), in a corollary to legalistic control over language.

The Stonecipheco minion Neil Obstat Jr., meanwhile, is named for the phrase of papal censorship, nihil obstat ("nothing hinders"), in a corollary to legalistic control over language.

N.R.K., Keller's initials, together sound like "anarchy", and this order that philosophy might bring to this nervous boy should allow him to grow up, or somehow rise (keller is German for basement).

Hegel's all-important category of Fursichsein

[...] the open-ended, state-run lottery is a salutary vision: in losing week after week, Lenore is actually paying into a civic fund that is not unlike taxes, a fund of commonwealth that the young Wallace tentatively steps toward here. Many U.S. lotteries have historically been legally set up to support states' public-education systems, another sign of Lenore's involvement with learning (though increasingly such claims about state lotteries are truthless advertising).