Is Precise Language (Always) Good? [Part II]
On David Foster Wallace's Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life
Continuing on my original reflections on the virtues of imprecise language, I’d like to examine a moment in a short short story by David Foster Wallace that strikes me as both good and precisely imprecise:
Much could be said of this “radically condensed history,” but let’s focus on the last sentence: “One never knew, after all, now did one now did one no…
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