Wallace refers to the Irish philosopher George Berkeley, whom he describes as "[...] a world-class pleonast [...]"

This dialectic is Hegelian insofar as its paramount ideal is freedom

a star must always elide questions concerning the political and social causes behind the lack of opportunity and infrastructural development in the so-called inner city

In Infinite Jest, however, the duality of the individual operates through a fractious dialectic.

on the narrative level, the solipsistic interpretation of consciousness is entirely sublated here

always on the cusp of erupting into the exoteric environment

Mario Incandenza's stance when braced against his cantilevered police lock

fuses the game's dialectic of order and flux

as Espen Aarseth says of ergodic literature

postmodern writing "turns out to be mimetic after all [...]"