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lallating function

While lightly dismissing the "magazine people" as disingenuous, Wallace draws paralliptical attention to his own disingenuousness in writing the piece at all.

This repeated abnegation of qualification is one of many figurations of a deeply problematic tendency to reject ideas of authority and authorship throughout the nonfiction, in ways that dovetail interestingly with the structural and vocal instability of the fiction.

"liebestod," meaning love-death, here is interesting; the connection of love with death further highlights the notion of death as a consummation

simultaneously aggravating and obviating the distinction between self and other