A sentence, in motion.

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Jump into the argument.

David Foster Wallace, “Mister Squishy,” in Oblivion: Stories (2004).
Inspired by Hannah Smart’s “Nothing Ever Happens: ‘Mister Squishy’ and the Year of the Sentence Diagram”, Los Angeles Review of Books, November 15, 2025.
This is an actual live browser-tab recording, driven over CDP in headless Chrome and encoded by MediaRecorder. It is not a slideshow or an assembly of screenshots. The film is silent, with on-screen explanatory captions. Only the isolated app tab was captured—not the desktop or a personal browser profile.