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Girl with Curious Hair: Inside and Outside the Set
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benumbed
(en)
deprived of physical or emotional feeling
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grisly and hilarious pastiche of Ellis' preposterously benumbed prose
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grisly and hilarious pastiche of Ellis' preposterously benumbed prose
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clinamen
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poetic misreading or misprision
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Metafiction fails because it does not invite us inside but rather makes us stand back and watch the author look at his own reflection; the reader is left outside, alone, and the one thing Mark hates more than anything in the world is "to believe he is alone. Solipsism affects him like Ambrosian metafiction affects him. It's the high siren's song of the wrist's big razor" (303). [...] Wallace's work, conversely, seeks not to depict solipsism but rather to overcome it.
Metafiction fails because it does not invite us inside but rather makes us stand back and watch the author look at his own reflection; the reader is left outside, alone, and the one thing Mark hates more than anything in the world is "to believe he is alone. Solipsism affects him like Ambrosian metafiction affects him. It's the high siren's song of the wrist's big razor" (303). [...] Wallace's work, conversely, seeks not to depict solipsism but rather to overcome it.
ultimacies
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(noun, plural) the state or quality of being ultimate
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the felt ultimacies of our time
a quote from John Barth in "The Literature of Exhaustion"
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the felt ultimacies of our time
a quote from John Barth in "The Literature of Exhaustion"
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7 years, 8 months ago