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Re:“The Depressed Person” by David Foster Wallace (1998) [pdf] by wldcordeiro on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @12:58PM (#12745474)
What is TDP?
Re:“The Depressed Person” by David Foster Wallace (1998) [pdf] by krylon on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @12:59PM (#12745488)
"The Depressed Person", I guess, the text linked to above. ;-)
Re:“The Depressed Person” by David Foster Wallace (1998) [pdf] by wldcordeiro on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @01:04PM (#12745551)
There are far too many acronyms to deal with, getting down into a comment thread and seeing one 3-4 levels deep didn't connect with me as one for the linked content.
Re:“The Depressed Person” by David Foster Wallace (1998) [pdf] by lisper on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @02:09PM (#12746182)
Sorry, I thought TDP had been lexically bound, at least implicitly :-)
Re:“The Depressed Person” by David Foster Wallace (1998) [pdf] by nartsbtaa on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @05:30PM (#12747868)
David Foster Wallace also had an annoying habit of sprinkling non-standard (or at least obscure) acronyms throughout his writing.
Re:“The Depressed Person” by David Foster Wallace (1998) [pdf] by wldcordeiro on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @08:35PM (#12749018)
Indeed, the Eschaton chapter in Infinite Jest had a large amount of them and I ended up having to read the book with this wiki to make sense of lots of these acronyms. http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/ind...