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DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
Everything
and More
A Compact History of
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ATLAS BOOKS
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Copyright© 2003 by David Foster Wallace
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wallace, David Foster.
Everything and more : a compact history of infinity
I
David Foster
Wallace.-lst ed.
p. cm. - (Great discoveries)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN
0-393-00338-8
1.
Infinite-History.
I.
Title.
II.
Series.
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For my mother and father
Small But Necessary Foreword
U
nfortunately this is a Foreword you actually have to
read-and first-in order to understand certain
structural idiosyncrasies and bits of what almost
look like code in the main text. Of the latter the most fre-
quent is a boldface 'IYI'. This, be apprised, is not a tic or typo
but instead stands for the clause
If you're interested,
which
was getting used over and over so many times in early drafts
that what eventually happened is that through sheer repeti-
tion it evolved from a natural-language phrase for introduc-
ing some clause into an abstract extratextual sign-M-that
now serves to classify certain chunks of text in a particular
way. Which way
will
now be justified and explained.
Like the other booklets in this 'Great Discoveries' series,
Everything and More
is a piece of pop technical writing.
Its subject is a set of mathematical achievements that are
extremely abstract and technical, but also extremely pro-
found and interesting, and beautiful. The aim is to discuss
these achievements in such a way that they're vivid and

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