[David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (Boston: Little, Brown, 1996).]
That’s a pickup line used by Orin Incandenza (as recalled by his onetime friend Marlon Bain). I think this line has great relevance to our present political discourse: if Orin were a political candidate, he could be a progressive or a moderate, whatever a voter prefers. Why not? But Orin attempts to appeal by acknowledging his artifice.
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Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Orin Incandenza, shapeshifter
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