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The truth is that there’s no difference between a life and a story? But a life pretends to be something more? But it really isn’t more? LENORE: It just seems more honest, somehow JAY: Why is a story more up-front than life? Filled with people like Jay, a meddling psychologist who wears a gas mask when he smells “breakthroughs”. It creates a world out of itself and lets the characters develop as if they were living. Shouldn’t a story make the context that makes people do certain things and have the things be appropriate or not appropriate? A story shouldn’t just mention the exact context it’s supposed to try really to create, right?” This seeming lack of direction was also one of the themes. Even when I didn’t know where the story was possibly going, I didn’t care. The Broom of The System pushes character development through dialogue and setting to a level I’ve never encountered before. Their connections, acquaintances, loves, and neuroses drive the plot forward and inside-out. The core of the story revolves around a family who’s gotten wealthy off of the baby food industry.
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Entertaining dialogue continued throughout the book and built an incredible world for the characters to live in. My favorite is probably the businessman who rants about his new goal to become infinitely large by consuming everything outside of him, while he’s decimating 9 steaks in a fine-dining restaurant. The excerpt above is from a longer conversation about what eventually shows up as a well-loved, and uncharacteristically crowded Ohio landmark. Not because I love deserts, but because of the absurdity of the topic and the brilliance of the personalities in the conversation. Ed Roy Yancey, of Industrial Desert Design, Dallas. Cacti and scorpions and the sun beating down. Something to remind us of what we hewed out of. A point of savage reference for the good people of Ohio. I haven’t read Infinite Jest yet, though remembering how much I loved The Broom of The System makes me want to… You might know a lot more than that and it’s likely you know much more about him than I do. You might know David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest or his commencement speech about the nature of reality, This is Water. And her cockatiel, Vlad the Impaler, has suddenly started spouting a mixture of psychobabble, Auden, and the King James Bible, which may propel him to stardom on a Christian fundamentalist television program.įiercely intelligent and entertaining, this debut novel from one of the most innovative writers of our generation explores the paradoxes of language, storytelling, and reality.David Foster Wallace – The Broom of The System – Book Review – Cole D. Her beau (and boss), editor-in-chief Rick Vigorous, is insanely jealous.
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Her great-grandmother, a one-time student of Wittgenstein, has disappeared with twenty-five other inmates of the Shaker Heights Nursing Home. Lenore works as a switchboard attendant at a publishing firm, and in addition to her mind-numbing job, she has a few other problems. The year is 1990 and the place is a slightly altered Cleveland, Ohio, which sits on the edge of a suburban wasteland-the Great Ohio Desert. The "dazzling, exhilarating" ( San Francisco Chronicle) debut novel from the bestselling author of Infinite Jest, available for the first time as an audiobook.Īt the center of The Broom of the System is the betwitching (and also bewildered) heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman.