The merit of knowing how to credibly link all this tangle is undeniable.

There are also love triangles, psychotherapists crazier than their own clients…well, a festival. To the formula we must add a multitude of stories inserted in the middle of the novel that have nothing to do with the story and that, even so, we read in its entirety, like a book of stories by David Foster Wallace.

Lenore's Complete Family History, including a gifted camel brother with a prosthetic leg and another that nothing is known about.

the story of a cockatoo reciting bible verses, and his subsequent signing-kidnapping by a religious television network.

The rivalry between two baby food companies and the discovery by one of them of a miraculous product that makes babies learn to speak long before their turn.The life and miracles of Norman Bombardini, owner of the building where Lenore works (with whom he falls in love), and a man who, in his vital anguish, has decided to eat obscene amounts of food to fatten himself up to occupy the entire universe.The disappearance/escape of the Lenore's great-grandmother (also named Lenore) and 20 other grandparents from the nursing home where they live.

The love relationship between Lenore Beadsman, an existentially confused young woman who is always bewildered, with her much older boss, Rick Vigorous, head of a publisher.Shortly after looking at the book one can get carried away, not without entertaining wonder, by the multitude of plots that begin to emerge. The Wittgenstein influence, especially on philosophical questions as merely linguistic confusion, or not, certainly resonated with my younger self who was earning a philosophy degree part time.€22,70 View deals Exorbitant frame volume Collecting David Foster Wallace then seemed trendy, and intellectual, especially with 'The Broom of the System' that deals with philosophy and language. The latter part was for nostalgia, and the book serves as an objectivist totem of my times spent in New York City, in late 2000s, as a young Quantitative Associate (that's the actual title) working for a then bulge bracket after graduate school in the west coast. And I got this book for the Strand Bookstore quite many years ago, evidence by the rather rigid clear protector, which Strand used (maybe still uses) for its rare books, affixed with a 'Rare Book Room' sticker in gold. A soft copy version was simultaneously published under the 'Contemporary American Fiction' series of unknown copies. This is the first edition, hard-cover version of David Foster Wallace's debut, possibly the most scarce of all his first edition publication, with rumored 1,300 copies only.

The broom of the system