Low Traffic, IJ, & Infinite Jest

[Bonnie Surfus ENG]

I think that the questions needn't be included, and that DFW "comments" 
on this fact by excluding them, because they are so bondheadedly 
obvious--the questions, that is.  They are standard issue U.S. Govt. 
interrogation tried and true inquiries that we've seen used in coutnless 
HIGH DRAMA castings of U.S. Govt interrogations.

> > > On Mon, 18 Mar 1996, 
Andrew Dinn wrote: > 
> > One other quirk I really fell for was his use of ellipsis in dialogue.
> > Not as per Pynchon to denote a hiatus or trailing off in speech but
> > rather indicating a non-verbal contribution to a dialogue e.g.
> 
> He does this in IJ too, I believe (I don't have the book at hand).
> He also uses the ellipsis in dialogue for another purpose, whose moti-
> vation I don't understand: one of the characters is being interviewed
> by a government agent posing as a journalist.  DFW includes portions
> of these interviews, but he always deletes the agent's questions and
> leaves only the answers.  It's clear from these answers that the
> questions were spoken; they just aren't printed.  Anybody have any
> theories on this?  For that matter, any theories on why DFW relegates
> some conversations to the footnotes while including others that seem
> no more central to the plot in the main text?
> 
> --Adam
>