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limn

The sound of hauntology, as limned out by Fisher and Reynolds, is a corrupted one, born of the very fallibility of analogue recording mediums

—p.149 Goodbye, Dragon Inn (1) by Nick Pinkerton
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scrim

sun peering through a scrim of cloud coverage

—p.135 Goodbye, Dragon Inn (1) by Nick Pinkerton
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in which staircases can be mounted in a single bound

[...] we need art and artists for our dark days, too [...] If Shangguan's fighter in Dragon Inn represents a fantasy of supreme physical control, Chen's ticket taker in Goodbye, Dragon Inn recalls us to the ungainliness of fallible boies made of skin, blood, and bone, and to the often onerous r…

—p.130 Goodbye, Dragon Inn (1) by Nick Pinkerton
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liquescent

along with the liquescent clanging of swords

—p.126 Goodbye, Dragon Inn (1) by Nick Pinkerton
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a world increasingly given over to non-spaces

[...] These architectural manifestations of hypermodern existence, liminal sites through which one passes in transit, include shopping malls, supermarkets, hotels and motels, airports, superhighways, food courts and convenience stores - all backdrops, it should be noted, against which a goodly port…

—p.90 Goodbye, Dragon Inn (1) by Nick Pinkerton