
Slate's Audio Book Club: Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace
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The Power of Hyperrealism in Performance
Aperpo: "It is actually about a work of art that is destructive, that harms you" The way he engages with human consciousness is that it refreshes my understanding of it. A lot of passages like this are just incredibly hyperrealist descriptions of the world. There's a whole other one when somebody's walking upstairs inside the building and there's like psychosis being sent.
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