Wallace means 'the really important kind of freedom' — choosing what to pay attention to
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Wallace means 'the really important kind of freedom' — choosing what to pay attention to
The Brothers Karamazov's Grand Inquisitor chapter argues
The Grand Inquisitor chapter argues that freedom is a burden most people would gladly surrender
David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest won Time magazine's 100 Best English-Language Novels list
The Land (poem)
"The Waste Land" captures the spiritual desolation of post-World War I Europe
the Romantics (Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley) elevated
Romantics valued imagination and feeling over reason and convention
Tradition and the Individual Talent
T. S. Eliot coined the term 'anxiety of influence'
The Cantos
The Cantos includes Chinese characters and quotations in multiple languages
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