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interstice

These interstices where Wallace scholarship can find something like the new voices we are being told it so desperately needs?

—p.94 David Foster Wallace and Music: The Grunge Writer and the Hitherto Criminally Overlooked Importance of Signifying Rappers (89) by Tony McMahon
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a cheap holiday in other people's misery

A recurrent situationist theme: the idea of 'the vacation' as a sort of loop of alienation and domination, a symbol of the false promises of modern life, a notion that as CLUB MED--A CHEAP HOLIDAY IN OTHER PEOPLE'S MISERY would become graffiti in Paris in May 1968, and then, it seemed, turned into …

—p.93 David Foster Wallace and Music: The Grunge Writer and the Hitherto Criminally Overlooked Importance of Signifying Rappers (89) by Greil Marcus
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Wittgenstein on chess

Wittgenstein often compares the arbitrariness of the rules of a language to that of the rules of a game, for example, chess: "the purpose of the rules of chess is not to correspond to the essence of chess but to the purpose of the game of chess" [...] We can of course decide, while playing chess, t…

—p.81 "Hidden in Plain Sight": Language and the Importance of the Ordinary in Wallace, DeLillo, and Wittgenstein (73) by Allard Pieter den Dulk, Anthony Leaker