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...//www.thehowlingfantods.com/dfw The Howling Fantods - Nick Maniatis' great DFW website] * [http://www.davidfosterwallace.com "Unofficial" DFW website]

...he synthesis of some polymers but is most emphatically not pimple cream as DFW claims. I suspect it would burn your skin off." Although, Olympia continu

:See [http://theknowe.net/dfw The Know(e): dfw] for a complete bibliography. * [http://www.thehowlingfantods.com/dfw.htm THE HOWLING FANTODS! - David Foster Wallace: News, Info, Links]

The passage in which Hal eats the mold is reproduced not quite verbatim from DFW's purportedly autobiographical 1991 <i>Harper's Magazine</i> essay [http:// ...unication, conceived in the pre-Internet era … not sure what this means, DFW may have intended some form of communication different from email, which ha

...als not very much at all. The topic is either as esoteric as it seems or a DFW invention. In the 1990 essay "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction", DFW uses Toblerone to point out that treats are acceptable in small amounts but

...''arrière-garde'', there is no such thing as ''après-garde'' in French. DFW makes either a mistake or a pun — likely the latter — because the notio A type of painkiller [DFW's note explains and embroiders]; a substance manufactured within the human

...ait de bonne guerre'' (it was fair game) seems more fitting, possibly what DFW meant.

A reference to DFW's Kenyon College commencement speech [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is DFW is making up a noun here. Recumbent means “sprawled out” or otherwise s

...by means of fine wires that impact the printer paper and an inked ribbon. DFW is referring to these wires (needles) which make a distinctive and rather u ...i> is wildly and recklessly wrong. There is nothing else in this book that DFW comes even close to getting as wrong as this. A urologist is a surgeon who

(perhaps used here by DFW differently) an instrument with a curved blade used to scrape sweat and dir

walking around, But this speaker is the Moms and the writer is DFW, so this is probably a good time to remember that in Aristotelian drama, pe

...glish, I find one of the very many "funniest" things about this book to be DFW's deadpan literal renderings of the Québecois French of Marathe (and other ..., Swiss, or Québecois word. Perhaps a malentendu in French on the part of DFW – Marathe should have heard <i>itier</i> for ETA.

DFW is making up this noun (as he also does on [[Pages_883-902#Page_898|Page 88

<i>botany</i>, produced or formed by fission; what DFW apparently intends here is a neologism/malaprop for “tending to cause som ...oom] who [https://wwd.com/eye/people/the-full-bloom-3592315/ was no fan of DFW's]:

a malaprop; DFW means pertaining to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_force nuclear

...rence the Robert Gould Shaw statue that Joelle van Dyne passes on p. 223. DFW appears to have moved the Shaw memorial from Beacon Street to Boylston Stre

...t to explode) quality. It is also a toxic yellow, two attributes to which DFW was probably also tipping his hat here.

a type of pin or bolt; DFW is likely playing off the phrase "dead as a doornail" here

probably meant to be a follow-up television channel to ESPN, perhaps DFW intends Interdependent / Sports Programming Network

The (misspelt by DFW) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustachian Eustachian tube] connects the mid ...e in 1881. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_von_Volkmann Wikipedia]) DFW’s explanation is rare-for-him bunk. Although it may be associated with a