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The Pale King
by David Foster Wallace, Michael Pietsch

The Pale King
by David Foster Wallace, Michael Pietsch

The Pale King
by David Foster Wallace, Michael Pietsch

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ostensibly about Claude but really focuses on Leonard Stecyk's backstory (the severed-thumb incident)

Foster Wallace, D. (2012). §39. In Foster Wallace, D. The Pale King. Penguin, pp. 417-424

105 pounds soaking wet

418

[...] It was not just that at almost sixteen Stecyk was 5'1" and 105 pounds soaking wet, which he was (soaking wet) when the boys in his PE class's shower all urinated on him after knocking him to the tile floor, which ritual they called a Stecyk special [...]

—p.418 by David Foster Wallace 7 years, 2 months ago

[...] It was not just that at almost sixteen Stecyk was 5'1" and 105 pounds soaking wet, which he was (soaking wet) when the boys in his PE class's shower all urinated on him after knocking him to the tile floor, which ritual they called a Stecyk special [...]

—p.418 by David Foster Wallace 7 years, 2 months ago