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1
"sliver lamé"...?
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@1: That's actually a direct quote from the essay as it appeared in Harper's:

http://www.harpers.org/archive/1996/01/0…

So maybe Wallace wept at the lack of editors at Harper's when the piece was originally published in 1996?
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Why can't you have silver lam'e? Like gold lame but silver?
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@3, it says "sliver", not "silver".

Paul, will you read it as "sliver"?
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He meant "silver," obviously. Don't entrench a proofreading error, I beg of you.

Plus, I don't know how you'll be able to read from that piece to an audience. I tried reading it aloud to someone, and the pauses due to gasping for air from laughing my ass off kind of killed the flow.

So sorry DFW's gone.

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