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Now that we've learned a bit more about how Subsidized Time works, why might Wallace have decided to have the bulk of the novel's action take place in the Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment? Consider what a diaper does and any symbolic (or literal) instances of it happening in today's reading.
In today's reading, Wallace begins to define the peculiar day-after-tomorrow future he's constructed, giving us some of the broad strokes. O.N.A.N, or the Organization of North American Nations, is a conglomerate of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, formed sometime in the 1990s. Along with this new arrangement is a new arrangement of time: the subsidized calendar, which...
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