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“Octet” did not simply spring into existence as the complex story we know today. Its genetic code can be traced back to a short story titled “Pop Quiz.” As revealed by documents auctioned at Sotheby’s in 2016, Wallace initially conceived of the piece as a series of vignettes for the Chicago literary magazine spelunker flophouse in the autumn of 1997. When he received the page proofs, he was deeply agitated by the editor’s revisions. In a fury of red and blue ink, he meticulously corrected the syntax and punctuation, scrawling notes to the editor like: “Assume I know what I’m doing & that non-standard punctuation is intentional, please”.

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"Octet" is a challenging, brilliant piece of metafiction that asks: Can we still trust our own emotions in an ironic world? It is a cornerstone of late 20th-century literature and essential reading for those interested in David Foster Wallace’s project of reviving sincerity in fiction. “Octet” did not simply spring into existence as