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genuflect

He had had faith, but he realized, looking down now on the drift of roofs below, broken in genuflection, from the facade pitted by five centuries

—p.890 PART III (721) by William Gaddis
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parlous

At this moment he even had his hands clasped, and for a parlous moment, stood stock still at the door.

—p.879 PART III (721) by William Gaddis
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you don’t shout about beautiful things

—Well of course, something . . . an experience of a spiritual nature . . . possibly. Stephen looked up at him blankly. —A need for spiritual . . . something more spiritual than typewriters, Ludy finished, and shifted his hams on his heels. He cleared his throat and lowered his eyes from the blank g…

—p.869 PART III (721) by William Gaddis
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gelid

silenced by a sweet and gelid smile

thought it meant like horsey or something lol

—p.865 PART III (721) by William Gaddis
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they were all pictures of typewriters inspo/funny

Fr. Eulalio was in his twenties, a fact which he never allowed to interfere with those exercises of gravity so necessary to his profession, which was not so much being a monk, as being a Spaniard. [...] Fr. Eulalio burst in carrying a large volume under one of the brown arms of his robe. The older …

—p.859 PART III (721) by William Gaddis