David Foster Wallace Quote

Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes called "exformation," which is a certain quantity of vital information removed from but evoked by a communication in such a way as to cause a kind of explosion of associative connections within the recipient.


Consider The Lobster: Essays and Arguments (ed. Hachette UK, 2012) - ISBN: 9781405521017


Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes called exformation, which is a...

Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes called exformation, which is a...

Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes called exformation, which is a...

Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes called exformation, which is a...