Re:Karen Green–David Foster Wallace's widow–struggles to dea...
by blaser-waffle on Thursday December 19, 2019 @01:12PM
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I'm glad I read the whole thing... but the dude needed an editor.
Several of his footnotes are essentially short stories and have their own tangents and footnotes. Sort of the literary equivalent to the "cut-away" phenomenon of the 2000s. Think Arrested Development or Family Guy or The Royal Tannebaums, where they made a joke and it flashes back to a mini-scene 15 years earlier. It breaks up the narrative and allows for deeper exploration of the joke or concept. Same idea with IJ, or other DFW works where he uses the footnotes.
Several of his footnotes are essentially short stories and have their own tangents and footnotes. Sort of the literary equivalent to the "cut-away" phenomenon of the 2000s. Think Arrested Development or Family Guy or The Royal Tannebaums, where they made a joke and it flashes back to a mini-scene 15 years earlier. It breaks up the narrative and allows for deeper exploration of the joke or concept. Same idea with IJ, or other DFW works where he uses the footnotes.