oh, thank you for this. Really good stuff.

Good lord, ten pages.

There is no TL;DR version of DFW's prose, you read his stuff because it's fun, not to get to the point.

FWIW, the last 3 pages are footnotes.

Yes, but the Pratchettesque endnotes are part of the fun. It's too bad they're left to the end instead of being inserted into the footer to stand alongside the main article.

It's worth the time.