Inside David Foster Wallace’s Private Self-Help Library
Maria Bustillos
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Maybeh itz dat the words on da list all mean their opposite:
Foreign: Is an English word and not a foreign word
Big: IS a small word having only three letters
Diminutive: Is a big word having as many letters as it has (I’m not counting)
Incomprehensible: Is comprehensible
Untyped: Is typed
Pulchritude: Is not a beautiful looking word
S-less: Has two s
Unwritten: Is written
Indefinable: If definable
Misspelled: Spelled correctly
Vulgar: Is not a vulgar word
High-class: is not a high class word
Invisible: Is visible
Unvowelled: Has vowels
Obscene: is not obscene