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Wallace’s writing style in “The Depressed Person” is getting on my nerves. Why beat around the bush and continuously emphasize who’s talking to who? I get it. It just feels like it fills up the page unnecessarily.

Th board will nod and you will go, and eyes of skin can cross blind into a cloud-blotched sky, punctured light emptying behind sharp stone that is forever. That is forever. Step into the skin and disappear.
Hello.

I enjoy his description of a boy preparing to dive. Also like the use of the second person.

“In all things they are proud of you, satisfied, and they have retreated to the warm distance from which pride and satisfaction travel. You all get along well.”