Question

What assumption does the narrator make in this excerpt? that the people he is addressing enjoy long conversations that the people he is addressing appreciate intellectualism that the people he is addressing have researched philosophy that the people he is addressing expect a confrontation

Answer 1

If the excerpt is this
‘I could, if you’d let me, talk and talk. Let’s 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,’ I say. ‘I’m not just a creâtus, manufactured, conditioned, bred for a function.’

Then the answer is the people he is addressing expect a confrontation.

Answer 2

The correct answer is D). The assumption that the narrator makes in this excerpt is that the  people he is addressing expect a confrontation.

In the line “I could interface you guys right under the table,” 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 “Infinite Jest” 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).