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the narrative-void reading and the character-folding style — an aesthetic account of Wallace's whole method

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From: Het vuur van David Foster Wallace herontdekt

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Did you know? That same syllabus disarms grade-grubbers with data: under "ANOTHER WARNING: WHAT I'M LIKE AS A GRADER" Wallace publishes his complete career tally — "Total # of students I've ever had: 387" — and a full histogram of every grade he had ever given, bottoming out at "Average Grade: 5.775 = B-/C+" (hrc-marginalia-galleries-survey).