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Here's Dave (one of the McSwy's notes, from a former student, reports that the whole "David Foster Wallace" thing was thrust upon him by agents/publishers to separate him from all the other Dave Wallaces) reading from the baton-twirler sequence in the Harper's state fair piece (listen for the "whorp-whorping" toward the end):

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Some o 'de Marsters would whorp de nigger chilluns fer dat carelessness, but Marse Johnson, he always good to his niggers.

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