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Episode 181: The Fraudulence Paradox (David Foster Wallace's "Good Old Neon")

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The Inability of Language to Communicate a Person's Inner Life

The inability of language to communicate a person's inner life is a prominent theme in this story. He jumped from being concerned about those actual things to being concerned about how they'll be perceived and there's something so sad about that it's totally sad, he says. "There's a lot there's a lot of wisdom in this," the author adds.

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