Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?"" I give."" You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.

David Foster Wallace
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The answer to the question, "What do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?" is this: Someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.

Source: Infinite Jest

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