The correct answer is D). The assumption that the narrator makes in this excerpt is that the Ā people he is addressing expect a confrontation.
In the line āI could interface you guys right under the table,ā you can induce the attitude or the invitation to confront ideas, regarding the comparisons he has expressed lines above.
The text is taken from the novel āInfinite Jestā written by David Foster Wallace in 1996. This bestseller is a futuristic novel in which the U. S., Canada, and Mexico form a unified territory known as the Organization of North American Nations or O.N.A.N. The name is related to Onanism(Hysteria). Ā
Answer:
Read this excerpt from Infinite Jest.
āI could, if youād let me, talk and talk. Letās talk about anything. I believe the influence of Kierkegaard on Camus is underestimated. I believe Dennis Gabor may very well have been the Antichrist. I believe Hobbes is just Rousseau in a dark mirror. I believe, with Hegel, that transcendence is absorption. I could interface you guys right under the table,ā I say. āIām not just a creĆ¢tus, manufactured, conditioned, bred for a function.ā
What assumption does the narrator make in this excerpt?
A) that the people he is addressing enjoy long conversations
B) that the people he is addressing appreciate intellectualism
C) that the people he is addressing have researched philosophy
D) that the people he is addressing expect a confrontation
Explanation:
D is the correct option
