Barth asked first: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_in_the_Funhouse https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_in_the_Funhouse This piece title is from that open

Barth asked first: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_in_the_Funhouse https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_in_the_Funhouse This piece title is from that opening line. The DFW connection is quite striking, as Wikipedia sums up: > The story "Lost in the Funhouse" had an overt influence on David Foster Wallace in the final novella of Girl with Curious Hair, "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way". The protagonist takes a creative writing course at a school near Johns Hopkins, taught by a Professor Ambrose, who says he "is a character in and the object of the seminal 'Lost in the Funhouse'"