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Modern American Lostness (or how to be and not be alone)

by Ashlie M. Kontos

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? (2016). Modern American Lostness (or how to be and not be alone). In Kampmeier, C. (ed) Normal 2015: Selected Works from the Second Annual David Foster Wallace Conference. Lit Fest Press, pp. 75-86

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A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the America that I have really loved and love. But a good half of it is a country of boredom, emptiness, monotony, brainless production, and brainless consumption, and this is the American inferno.

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—p.75 by Italo Calvino 3 days, 13 hours ago

A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the America that I have really loved and love. But a good half of it is a country of boredom, emptiness, monotony, brainless production, and brainless consumption, and this is the American inferno.

nice

—p.75 by Italo Calvino 3 days, 13 hours ago