Make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us. — David Foster Wallace

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Make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us.

David Foster Wallace

1993

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Wallace, David Foster. "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction." A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments. Back Bay Books, 1998.

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Wallace, David Foster. "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction." The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Summer 1993.

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