Enfield is a deliberate map-fiction — the Allston/Brighton/Newton area "reconfigured", named for the Massachusetts…
echoes
From: The Secret History of David Foster Wallace's Boston (BDCwire)
- Real-world: Wallace, 1996 Lydon interview as printed: "I
like to sort of mess with maps a little bit. Part of the book is about
messing with maps, so I sort of reconfigured the Allston, Brighton,
Newton area a little bit and stuck this town in that was, it was actually
the name of a town close to where I went to college which was inundated
for a reservoir." [¶6]
- IJ echo: Enfield itself — the arm-shaped township of the topographic
essay (scene 063, pp. 240-242); the map-vs-territory master theme
(Eschaton, scene 073, pp. 321-342).
- Weight: author-stated