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Apparently this book is based on Wittgenstein’s theories? The idea is that Wittgenstein says that language and self-awareness defines you. If you don’t have the words to describe yourself, then you don’t exist beyond certain descriptions.
Lenore is obsessed with the idea that she can’t be defined, and doesn’t exist beyond others perceptions of her.
Rick vigorous thus functions as Lenore’s opposite.
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Lenore is obsessed with the idea that she can’t be defined, and doesn’t exist beyond others perceptions of her.
Rick vigorous thus functions as Lenore’s opposite.
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Lenore also rejects one of Rick’s stories at some point after they have an argument. DFW send to argue that the most freedom we have when it comes to perceiving ourselves is in rejecting other people’s perceptions of us. Identity is therefore still very dependent on language and social constraints. I wonder what the telephone company represents. maybe it represents the jumbling up of all these perceptions? Perhaps it c represents how society (or an individual person) has to interpret the same set of perceptions back and forth before landing on one or none at all.
Then there’s Vlad The Impaler. Vlad spits whatever Lenore says right back at her. Lenore keeps trying to reject Vlad and criticizes him due to this fact. What does it look like when someone who can’t perceive themselves keeps getting THEMSELVES spit back at them?
This novel challenges Wittgenstein’s theories. or at the very least converses with them. I have read any of his theories directly. I picked this book up randomly because I wanted to read DFW. But from what I’m hearing, this novel is making sense in a good way.