Eric Scheske's Outside Modern Limits

Eric Scheske's Outside Modern Limits

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Eric Scheske's Outside Modern Limits
Eric Scheske's Outside Modern Limits
David Foster Wallace, the Monk, and the Bridge Option
Flourishing Despite Modernity

David Foster Wallace, the Monk, and the Bridge Option

Also introducing the Holy Fool, Hume, and Punic Options

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Oct 10, 2024
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David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest is so quixotically massive and absurd, the average reader today could easier read Cervantes. I’m on my third try and continue to bog down in the book’s stylistic unorthodoxy and endless footnotes. If it weren’t for the book’s frequent chuckles that serve as oxygen shots to the brain, I would’ve suffocated before page…

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