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I've only read the first essay so far and actually didn't think it said anything all that poignant or interesting. As someone who loves DFW's fiction and is reading an essay collection of his for the first time, I sure hope it gets better!
— May 06, 2011 06:45AM
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I read E Unibus Pluram last night and it was stunning, not because it exposed how irony in media has permeated literature, but because it made me realize that I'm also "inside the aura". I may be just as guilty of using irony as a means of putting myself on a pedestal above "other people", of feeding my ego through mockery of a contrived status-quo. I finished it at about 1:15am and am still reeling.
— May 08, 2011 07:22AM
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May 07, 2011 09:08AM
Yeah, I am really early in and it wouldn't surprise me if it gets better. I liked what he was on to when he suggested that the reason he was a good tennis player was not because of ability, but because he didn't let outside stimuli (wind, etc.) bother him like the rest of the players did. He never really breached the topic again though, and it ended up feeling like a series of anecdotes that, while amusing, lacked any sort of underlying thesis tying it all together which I feel is essential to any essay. I'm still early in, and am hopeful the others will be better of course. I doubt I'd ever read anything by DFW that would disappoint me completely.
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