When I reach for phrases to describe David Foster Wallace, I find myself, with some embarrassment, falling into terminology that has little to do with literary criticism. The descriptors that come to mind—"deep-souled" or "wounded prophet" or "tribal sage"—seem to apply to some arcane realm of spirituality or alternative psychology, and not to a scribe …
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