[...] Like "Mister Squishy," §16 is one of Wallace's many multitrack narratives in which an oral discourse describes one thing while a wandering mind (despite being engaged by the external talk) explores something else entirely; our mission as readers--reconciling incompatible ideas, as in Freud's unconscious--is to ferret out the connection between the two tracks. [...]
definitely a motif to be used in my story
on the dialogue during Lane Dean's break, listening to the other examiners talk about dinner and mosquitos