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In the stories that make up oblivion, david foster wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of selfconsciousnessa. Throughout the stories, wallace explores the nature of reality, dreams, trauma, and the dynamics of consciousness. Stories 2004 is a collection of short fiction by american author david foster wallace. There was no couch,i sat in an easy chair and he sat facing me in his beatup old desk chair whose back part had one of those big rectangles or capes of backmassage beads attached to it the same way cabbies often put.
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Part history, part philosophy, part love letter to the study of mathematics, everything and more is an illuminating tour of infinity. In the stories that make up oblivion, david foster wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of selfconsciousness a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his. David foster wallace will deserve a prominent place in the account his entire oeuvre can be read as a rejection of that corrosive postmodern attitude. Those who appreciate his works will find references and anecdotes that will further deepen your connection to his writing. Its way brief interviews with hideous men 1999 oblivion.
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