The New Yorker: "All That" by David Foster Wallace

Is it safe to assume that this "story" is an excerpt from David Foster Wallace's posthumous novel, The Pale King, due out in 2011? The voice seems consistent with other snippets of the novel I've seen, so even though The New Yorker doesn't tell us this (they never do), that's the theory I'm running with.

In which case, it doesn't matter that this piece, as interesting as it is, doesn't work as a story. Having said that, it's enormously entertaining, in a David Foster Wallace sort of way. The n...