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He has this way of looking warily to either side of him before he says anything.
David Foster Wallace • Infinite Jest
Wallace spelunked the OED and fearlessly neologized, nouning verbs, verbing nouns, creating less a novel of language than a brand-new lexicographical reality.
David Foster Wallace • Infinite Jest
Wallace’s fictional manuscript and the philosophy thesis were also of a piece: both asked whether language depicted the world or in some deeper way defined it and even altered it.
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
comely,
Neal Stephenson • Seveneves: A Novel
“Almost Talmudically self-conscious?” Mark says. “Obsessed with its own interpretation?”
David Foster Wallace • Girl With Curious Hair
The one who’d asked had a sideburn and the invulnerable smile of someone who’s had two airport cocktails and nothing but nuts.
David Foster Wallace • The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel
a rate of con-sumption which tends to level everything out into an undifferentiated mass of high-quality description and trenchant reflection that be-comes both numbing and euphoric, a kind of Total Noise that’s also the sound of our U.S. culture right now, a culture and volume of info 1