"That there was no reading material except the seat pocket's customary in-flight catalogue and safety card, and the wing's engine's constant noise would have prevented him from sleeping even if he had taken a pill, and that there was literally nothing for him to do but lean ever so subtly forward and try as unobtrusively as possible to make out what the darker-haired younger passenger was relating to his less educated seatmate or companion, and try to interpret it and fit it into some context that would as it were ground the narrative and render it more comme on dit illuminating or relevant to his own context." -Oblivion, "another pioneer" David Foster Wallace
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