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the footnote apparatus of “De depressieve persoon” as a difficulty the reader must survive — a half-page sentence…

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From: Het vuur van David Foster Wallace herontdekt

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Did you know? Orin's fate at the novel's end — trapped under a giant tumbler like his roaches — exists only because Pietsch asked for some indication of what became of him; Wallace faxed the insertion on June 11, 1995, calling himself "not exactly qualmless" about it (composition-cluster).