

ONE TYPE OF AMBIGUITY
Editor's note: This entry was originally published on the author's website on Sept. 30, 2012 and appears here by special permission. -HG In class this week, a student presented his craft dissection of DFW’s brief story Incarnations of Burned Children. He asked us all to re-read the story quickly before we began discussion. Almost immediately, one of the students said she was going to the bathroom; she couldn’t bear to live through the 7th sentence again. I admit I skimmed ov