Task: Text Categorization
Input (English): A former student of this man disappears from a nursing home at the beginning of a novel set near the sinister Great Ohio Desert. That female student of this man passes down his theories to her granddaughter Lenore Beadsman in David Foster Wallace's The Broom of the System. Bruce Duffy fictionalized this man's relationship with two of his older colleagues in the novel The World as I Found It, whose title comes from one of this man's books. A novel named for this man begins with the line "in the beginning, sometimes I left messages in the street," and describes how the narrator drives to the great art museums of the world and burns the frames of paintings to keep warm. That novel named for this man is narrated by Kate, a woman typing a series of mostly one-sentence paragraphs in an East Coast beach house, who believes herself to be the last person on Earth. For 10 points, name this philosopher, who titles a David Markson novel about his "mistress."
Output (English): Literature