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edifying (en)

(verb) build / (verb) establish / (verb) to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge; uplift / (verb) enlighten inform

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
by David Foster Wallace

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
by David Foster Wallace

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
by David Foster Wallace


“In the Penal Colony” conceives description as punishment and torture as edification and the ultimate critic as a needled harrow whose coup de grâce is a spike through the forehead

—p.62 Some Remarks on Kafka's Funniness from Which Probably Not Enough Has Been Removed (60) by David Foster Wallace
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