What do these mean?
Occasionally Wallace worked double time in order to bend reality to meet
his fears, employing a kind of meta-logic reminiscent of his fiction. “A lot of his
criticism wasn’t that he was stupid in the whole bell curve of the population,
but that what he was really good at was pretending to be really smart,”

What does “employing a kind of meta-logic reminiscent of his fiction” mean?
and “he was stupid in the whole bell curve of the population”?

Question

What do these mean?
Occasionally Wallace worked double time in order to bend reality to meet
his fears, employing a kind of meta-logic reminiscent of his fiction. “A lot of his
criticism wasn’t that he was stupid in the whole bell curve of the population,
but that what he was really good at was pretending to be really smart,”

What does “employing a kind of meta-logic reminiscent of his fiction” mean?
and “he was stupid in the whole bell curve of the population”?

Answer

It is written using language that is complicated even for a native speaker to understand. I would read it as :

He is trying to make sense of a situation, using the only logic that he can.

The bell curve comment is making reference to an american book. The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life is a 1994 book by American psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein

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