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empyrean

dwell instead amid the empyrean of the unmentionable

—p.99 Exit Bernie (99) by Joshua Cohen
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nostrum

Also “appearance,” as in Barnum’s nostrum: “Put on the appearance of business, and generally the reality will follow.”

thought this meant like 'platitude' oops lol

—p.33 It’s a Circle: On the Closing of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (29) by Joshua Cohen
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coeval

From its very inception, which was coeval with this country’s inception, the American circus has been the imaginative grounds of American politics

—p.29 It’s a Circle: On the Closing of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (29) by Joshua Cohen
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empyrean

Mankind has lost a face, an irretrievable face, and everyone would like to be that pilgrim (dreamed of in the empyrean, under the Rose) who sees Veronica's handkerchief in Rome and murmurs with faith

—p.176 Paradiso XXXI, 108 (176) by Jorge Luis Borges
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solecism

on June 6, Teodelina Villar committed the solecism of dying in the southern suburbs

ooh

—p.129 The Zahir (128) by Jorge Luis Borges
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