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(You'll know the intermission when it rolls 'round; it's the whole chapter which seems completely unrelated and where every action starts with [I].)

Re: DFW: I'm not sure! I'd definitely say that the way Hussie works the aesthetic of maximalism ("I'm taking my own sweet time with this fucker and you're gonna love it—hold on, I'm-a cram a short story into this footnote") is reminiscent of Wallace, especially with the intermission and the first half of chapter 5. And there's a shared love of over-the-top verbal bombast (oh god, just wait'll Karkat shows up and starts unloading his 70mm rants on a regular basis—"IF SMUG WAS A MOTORCYCLE IT JUST JUMPED OVER A CANYON. THE CROWD GOES WILD WITH DISMAY AND COMMITS MASS SUICIDE.") Beyond that, it's not a thing I specifically noticed?

But I'm with you on the way some of the comedy feels like it's from the future, especially the way it builds structures of meta-jokes on top of the jokes the characters tell each other. That's some cool shit.