Rick Vigorous, one of the more voluble characters

language uses resemble each other in a wide variety of ways but with no central sine qua non feature

what I call Walace's "skeletal narrative," which involves the undermining and eventual collapse of a surface narrative to reveal the "true" or "real" story, by means of jarring elements planted within the narrative voice itself

[...] challenged the tradition of thinking of the mind as a mirror of reality, extending the argument to challenge the idea that language should in some way represent the world exactly as it is, if such could be discovered. He found fault with the idea that Philosophy could seek this sort of representation at all, claiming that as Philosophy evolved, "philosophical problems appeared, disappeared, or changed shape, as a result of new assumptions or vocabularies" (Philosophy xiii). To put it simply, philosophical problems are the direct offshoot of Philosophical vocabularies. [...]

Lenore Beadsman's erratic progress towards equipoise and self-reliance

[...] this new project of realism is founded on the search for human truth and linguistic honesty, guided by the principle of communication and aware of its own necessary fallibility. It is further hoped that the writing of this generation will come to be seen not as the undirected hysteria of a generation bellowing to be heard above the noise, but rather the carefully modulated representation of world where noise has become the inescapable background, a world of what Wallace called "Total Noise" ("Deciderization" xix), in which to silence the constant hum would be to misrepresent reality. [...]