Re:“The Depressed Person” by David Foster Wallace (1998) [pdf]
by wldcordeiro on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @12:58PM
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What is TDP?
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Re:“The Depressed Person” by David Foster Wallace (1998) [pdf]
by krylon on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @12:59PM
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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...