Though I’m sure the answer is “no,” I’ve been thinking today about whether or not it was possible that Lovecraft knew anything of Cantor’s ideas about infinity. The infinitesimal islands of the rationals, for example.

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Characters like Schmidt in “Mr. Squishy,” the dead man in “Good Old Neon,” and, in particular, the law student in the last BIwHM, are far more verbally (and intellectually, in the middle case) adept than realism would dictate. I know that the Yale Law School doesn’t just let anyone in (and the only language missing [...]

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I just deleted the last twenty-one comments. There seems to be no way to reverse that. Sorry. From “Mr. Squishy”: “Awad, whose knowledge of small craft operation came entirely from a manual he was now using as a paddle. . .” (60). I hope to write some more extended reflections on some of Wallace’s fiction [...]

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