"Underneath the forms of fiction and poetry, you can bet your ass the ground comes from someone's actual life experience."

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We live today in a world where most of the really important developments in everything from math and physics and astronomy to public policy and psychology and classical music are so extremely abstract and technically complex and context-dependent that it's next to impossible for the ordinary citizen to feel that they (the developments) have much relevance to her actual life.

— David Foster Wallace