The Broom Of The System
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highly recommend this as a starting point for DFW
lacks the scale and mastery of IJ (what doesn't?), but nonetheless an obscenely brilliant and clever book. insane that he wrote this at 24 - what a talent
lots of building blocks for IJ to be found here - you can tell IJ was the culmination and logical conclusion of what he was trying to do throughout his early work
This book was... difficult? I don't think I entirely understood it, although I enjoyed the journey. Apparently it was written as a senior project about modal logic, and I don't really know what modal logic is, so... that's a problem.