'A matter of perspective': 'Good Old Neon' between literature and philosophy

“Good Old Neon” between literature and philosophy’ argues that Wallace’s most famous short story thematizes what literature is about according to David Foster Wallace. The essay follows the tripartite layers structuring the short story – centered on the respective protagonists of Neal, David Wallace, and David Foster Wallace – to demonstrate the centrality to its development of imagination, which, in Wallace’s competent hands, becomes both the space of caring and an empty space of suspension in which truth about the other may dwell.