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Jokes Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes called "exformation," which is a certain quantity of…
- No wonder we cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity…
- sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them.
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