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

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The Importance of Faith in Non-Fiction

I agree about the disservice but then at some point it kind of kept me going in parts where I would have been yeah especially frustrated you know with the story. It's interesting that some of like I have really loved some of his non-fiction pieces and the Roger Federer one is I think so brilliant, he says. "Good old neon was about" we didn't say what good old Neon was about but it's explained in a footnote marginallyUm the reason for the title um well it's not," she said. 'It's almost asking too much of the reader to,' David Foster Wallace adds.

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