This was the year, at five or six, that I learned the meaning of \u201creverence,\u201d which, as I understand it, is the natural attitude to take toward magical, unverifiable phenomena, the same way that \u201crespect\u201d and \u201cobedience\u201d describe the attitude one takes toward observable physical phenomena, such as gravity or money.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\u2014whole story<\/a>; rings interestingly against the passage from Infinite Jest<\/em> about the Sergeant-at-Arms<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This was the year, at five or six, that I learned the meaning of \u201creverence,\u201d which, as I understand it, is the natural attitude to take toward magical, unverifiable phenomena, the same way that \u201crespect\u201d and \u201cobedience\u201d describe the attitude one takes toward observable physical phenomena, such as gravity or money. \u2014whole story; rings interestingly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[438,64],"class_list":["post-9845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-david-foster-wallace","tag-sublimity-now"],"yoast_head":"\n
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