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[...] What's so terrifying about the narrator's nightmares of adult life, over and above the supernatural horrors of The Exorcist, consists in the grim fact that there can be no maternal reassurance that there exists "nothing like what you just dreamed in the real world" (106).

an "irony-free" antidote to the mordant rut of the postmodern condition

its notable absence of all forms of obtruding annotation

the gaping trap of logolatry