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Apr 17, 2014·1 min read

DFW on Inquiry

"Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes called “exformation,” which is a certain quantity of vital information removed from but evoked by a communication in such a way as to cause a kind of explosion of associative connections within the recipient." - David Foster Wallace

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