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Slate's Audio Book Club: Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace

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The Refusal of Storytelling

I think it's, I can imagine that partly being sort of motivated by something humane, which is to let the Rosen Kranzes and Gilder Sterns of the world have their piece. This year number of deformities and, you know, not just psychological but physical that you go through in this book. A lot of deformities, but very few gargoyles. The long parts of the plot that have nothing to do with the plot are part of his refusal of storytelling. He doesn't really try to create a kind of unity to this book. It's so much a part of the book. And it's also for the experience of reading it, it could be experienced

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