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humbly arguing ad hominem

Nevertheless, they boarded the Purdue Victory and sailed out of Boston harbor, provided for against all inclemencies but these they were leaving behind, and those disasters of such scope and fortuitous originality which Christian courts of law and insurance companies, humbly arguing ad hominem, def…

—p.4 The Recognitions PART I (1) by William Gaddis
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imprecate

Buried over there with a lot of dead Catholics, was Aunt May’s imprecation.

ahhh very confusing use of the word but it does make sense in context [refers to the woman that Aunt May hates]

—p.3 PART I (1) by William Gaddis
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is reality always clear and unambiguous?

Too often we bring to literature the bias for “realism” we were normally brought up with, and consequently we find a work like The Recognitions too fanciful, obscure, and riddling; but is reality always clear and unambiguous? is reality simple and not complex? does it unfold like the pages of a new…

—p.xi Introduction (v) by William H. Gass
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almost the whole point of what we do why/read

Silence became his mode, exile (in effect) his status, cunning in scraping by his strategy, while compiling data and constructing other people’s niggling or nefarious plots, building another long book out of our business world’s obsession with money, manipulation, and deception, composing a hymn to…

—p.ix Introduction (v) by William H. Gass