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Signifying Nothing. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. Datum Centurio. Octet. Adult World (I) Adult World (II) The Devil Is a Busy Man. Church Not Made with Hands. Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain Borders (VI) Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. Tri-Stan: I Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko.
- David Foster Wallace
- 1999
Summary. An unnamed narrator, in their early 20’s, describes how, when they were moving out of their parents’ house at age 19, they suddenly unearthed a repressed memory of their father “waggling his dick in my face” (75) when the narrator was watching TV as a kid.
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That short story is called "Signifying Nothing." David Foster Wallace is a master of irony. He somehow manages to make this title truthful while belying the psychological rage the narrator expresses over the father's response to being confronted about the incident.
"Signifying Nothing" is about a young man who, upon moving out of his parents' house at the age of twenty, suddenly relives a repressed memory from his youth of his father waving his penis in the narrator's face.
May 28, 1999 · Embattled parents and siblings dominate such eerie concoctions as “Signifying Nothing,” in which a primal scene perhaps expressing male dominance has a lasting effect on a son’s relationship with his father; and a powerfully imaginative torrent of Oedipal rivalry spoken “On his Deathbed . . .
May 28, 1999 · David Foster Wallace. 3.84. 29,576 ratings2,513 reviews. In his startling and singular new short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence.
