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calumny

It was a calumny that the bottle structure he made was composed entirely of liquor bottles, and one he would resent forever.

—p.158 MY EXPEDITION (129) by Norman Rush
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arras

But I thought Wouldn’t I be calmer, and wouldn’t I have less prefabricated imagery inundating me, and wouldn’t I have somewhat less constant hubbub going on behind the arrases lining my mind

—p.154 MY EXPEDITION (129) by Norman Rush
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crepitate

You approached Tsau down a corridor of darling crepitation. I asked myself what the idea could possibly be.

—p.154 MY EXPEDITION (129) by Norman Rush
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paeans

April nights in the Kalahari are cold, but we were hot. I got up three times to renew my paean to heat, light, and destruction. I burned everything. Even as day fell I threw more into the display.

—p.147 MY EXPEDITION (129) by Norman Rush
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truculent

Finally one stanza out of Elizabeth Bishop got hold of me and kept inserting itself between pieces of other poems, truculently.

—p.140 MY EXPEDITION (129) by Norman Rush
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