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Acronym	Definition
CTL	Control
CTL	Center for Teaching and Learning
CTL	Cytotoxic T-Lymphocyte (immunology)
CTL	Compact Track Loader
CTL	Cytotoxic T cell
CTL	Coal-to-Liquid
CTL	Computation Tree Logic
CTL	Close the Loop (various organizations)
CTL	Complex Text Layout
CTL	Centralia (Amtrak station code, Centralia, WA)
CTL	Creative Technology, Ltd. (various locations)
CTL	Children to Love
CTL	Catalog
CTL	Controls Library
CTL	Complementary Transistor Logic
CTL	Corel Transactional Licensing
CTL	Creative Labs
CTL	Common Control
CTL	Central Operator Control
CTL	Certificate Trust List
CTL	Consider the Lobster (David Foster Wallace story)
CTL	Cut to Length
CTL	Celebration of Teaching and Learning (various schools)
CTL	Cévennes Terre de Lumière (French heritage association)
CTL	Clinical Trial Leader
CTL	Corporation Tax Law (various locations)
CTL	Constructive Total Loss
CTL	Century Tokyo Leasing Corporation (Tokyo, Japan)
CTL	Curriculum, Teaching and Learning
CTL	Credit-Tenant Lease
CTL	Crossing the Line
CTL	Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics
CTL	Construction Technology Laboratories, Inc.
CTL	Centre du Temps Libre (French: Free Time Center)
CTL	Christ the Liberator
CTL	Custody Time Limit (UK)
CTL	Center Turn Lane (highways; various locations)
CTL	Center for Telemedicine Law
CTL	Centre des Technologies du Logiciel (French: Software Technology Center)
CTL	Core Test Language
CTL	Centre Technique de la Literie (French bedding company)
CTL	Construction Team Leader
CTL	Chaudronnerie Tuyauterie Launay (French boilermaking company)
CTL	Critical Task List
CTL	Cadmus Technology Limited (New Zealand)
CTL	Compass Transworld Logistics (est. 2007; Spain)
CTL	Choose the Left
CTL	Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana (Indian tribe)
CTL	Commercial Testing Laboratory
CTL	Charleville, Queensland, Australia - Charleville (Airport Code)
CTL	Centre Textile Logistique (French: Textile Logistics Center)
CTL	Certificate in Team Leading
CTL	Cyclotourisme Lionnais (French cycling club)
CTL	Clinical Team Lead (insurance carriers)
CTL	Complex Text Language
CTL	Central Testing Laboratory Ltd
CTL	Capacitive Threshold Logic
CTL	Carrier Tracking Loop (radio electronics)
CTL	Candidate Target List
CTL	Consumer Testing Laboratory
CTL	Combat Training Launch
CTL	Coalition Theatre Logistics (Joint US/AS project to improve coalition logistics interoperability)
CTL	Canoga Test Laboratory (NASA)
CTL	Credit Tenant Leasing
CTL	Code Tracking Loop
CTL	Compatibility Test Laboratory
CTL	Committee on Technological Literacy
CTL	Composite Tape Laying
CTL	CTSS Command Language Controller
CTL	Carrier Takeoff & Landing
CTL	Computing Technology Laboratory
CTL	Contingent Termination Liability
CTL	Contractor Tung-Sol (Electronic tubes made by Tungsol for US Army)
CTL	Construction Traditionnelle Loverienne (French construction company)
CTL	Chemical Technology Laboratory
CTL	Consumables Team Leader
CTL	Committee On Telecommunications Law
CTL	Control-Transfer Language
CTL	Cashier Team Leader (Target stores employee title)
CTL	Command Talking Language
CTL	Component Team Leader (US Navy)
CTL	Control Transfer List
CTL	Concurrent Test Latency
CTL	Certification in Transportation & Logistics Program (American Society of Transportation & Logistics)

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Start with his essay collections A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again and Consider the Lobster. He was a brilliant thinker across many disciplines--such as philosophy, math, movies, and tennis--who laid out his ruminations on the page for all to see.

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"Consider the Lobster" and "And Other Essays" remain on view until Dec.

Rachel Harrison: HESSEL MUSEUM OF ART AND CCS GALLERIES AT BARD COLLEGE, ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, NEW YORK

In between the bookend essays, Wallace dissects the reasons why sports stars' absolute calm under pressure paradoxically makes them unable to satisfy fans' desire to know what's going on inside them ("How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart"); asks whether or not lobsters feel pain and whether that ought to affect individuals' decisions to eat them ("Consider the Lobster"); sounds the depths of Kafka's humor for a tragic joyful sanity on spiritual par with Rilke, Kierkegaard, and the Psalms ("Some Remarks on Kafka's Funniness ...").

One frequent topic of Wallace's throughout his career has been the Midwest, both in essays--"Getting Away from Pretty Much Already Being Away from It All" and "Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley"--as well as such stories as "The Suffering Channel" and "Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way." In Consider the Lobster's "The View from Mrs.

Consider the Lobster's penultimate essay, "Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky," is a review of the fourth of five volumes of Joseph Frank's much acclaimed literary biography of the Russian novelist.

David Foster Wallace. Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

For example, in "Consider the Lobster," a 2004 essay about the Maine Lobster Festival, Wallace contemplates the festivities from the lobsters' point of view, questioning the received wisdom that they cannot feel anything and wondering whether the lobsters' apparently desperate attempts to avoid being submerged alive in boiling water should not raise uncomfortable questions about the implicit power structures coded into traditional ideas of human authority: "is it not possible," he asks, "that future generations will regard our own present agribusiness and eating practices in much the same way we now view Nero's entertainments or Aztec sacrifices?" (64).

In addition, he has written a number of long nonfiction articles for Harper's and other magazines, some of which were collected in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (1997) and Consider the Lobster (2005).

as "Certainly the End of Something or Other, One Would Sort of Have to Think." Consider the Lobster 51-59.

Sentimental posthumanism: David Foster Wallace

So if you haven't experienced David Foster Wallace, try A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, and Consider the Lobster. Perhaps give Infinite Jest a try.

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