language uses resemble each other in a wide variety of ways but with no central sine qua non feature
Rick Vigorous, one of the more voluble characters
those techniques are actually more for reminding the reader that what he or she is reading is mediated
on footnotes
the theoretical bulwark for a literature that was simultaneously challenging and therapeutic
quoting Jon Baskin in The Point
I ordered McCaffery's Vollmann anthology because of the compliments Wallace gave Vollmann in the McCaffery interview I revisited in writing this introduction. I spent 14 months trying to understand Cahoone's 600-page anthology of modern and postmodern thought because Wallace made me want to know mo…
