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The Brain has selected interesting
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sentences from the web. It automatically assigned them to some of our
fictitious experts based on their personalities.
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Albert Graham,
Backyard Pool Drainer
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David Foster Wallace's new novel, "Infinite Jest," weighs about 4 pounds and runs 1,079 pages, almost 100 of which are end notes in teeny-tiny type.
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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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Even such skillful literary advocates of ironical detachment as David Foster Wallace, with his meta-fictions, is beginning to understand the need for a luminous, passionate connectedness in art.
David Foster Wallace, son of a philosophy professor and an English teacher, lives outside Bloomington, Ill.
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Anita Ganesh,
Poet
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Acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace has been named the inaugural Roy Edward Disney Professor in Creative Writing at Pomona College.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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Although David Foster Wallace has been compared ad infinitum to Thomas Pynchon, enigmatic author of the mammoth modern classic "Gravity's Rainbow," Wallace has vigorously discouraged the comparison, and for valid reasons: "Gravity's Rainbow" is a complex novel, but it's never really "experimental" in any true sense.
David Foster Wallace "The twenty page passage on Eschaton, with the Mean Value Theorem footnote, is possibly the best use of mathematics in fiction I've.
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John Fielding,
CEO
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In David Foster Wallace's huge new novel, the calendar is sold to the highest corporate bidder.
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Pete Trengle,
Bass Player
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David Foster Wallace argues that "the coldly manufactured, self-consciously derivative sound carpet of samples over which the rapper and DJ declaim serves to focus listeners' creative attention on the complex and human lyrics themselves" (Costello and Wallace 97)
Highly literate, he must know he's closer in lots of ways to novelists such as Dave Eggers and David Foster Wallace than to Bono and Kid Rock?
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Todd Porter,
Gym Attendent
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David imagines Marc Foster's ghost appearing and taunting him for being gay, saying he will go to hell.
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Craig Leveaux,
Blogger
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I read part of that David Foster Wallace novel, the big one that earned him much attention, and I remember it having a TV/computer combo thing.
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Jordan Jones,
Rapper
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Similarly, David Foster Wallace's analysis of the content of rap music argues that "the serious rap places the very theme of 'theme' under erasure.
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