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bolus

My thoughts on this were a bolus, to use a word I owe to Denoon and that seems to have become indispensable to me.

—p.115 THE SOLAR DEMOCRAT (57) by Norman Rush
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parapraxes

But it was a proof of gentility that he overlooked my first parapraxis in his presence and is probably even one of the reasons I was moved to persist despite an otherwise not-auspicious encounter at Tutwane’s.

—p.100 THE SOLAR DEMOCRAT (57) by Norman Rush
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carom

It also had the carom quality of indirectly apprising him that in his description of the sun he had missed a bet by not comparing it to a cow.

—p.95 THE SOLAR DEMOCRAT (57) by Norman Rush
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cathexis

I am unbelievably cathected when it comes to fat, which works out well in that it impels me to be a good influence on friends who need to lose weight.

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—p.93 THE SOLAR DEMOCRAT (57) by Norman Rush
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lanugo

Then as he gets closer and keeps scrutinizing, it turns into the surface of the moon, cratered, with points of oil glittering and her lanugo showing up.

—p.91 THE SOLAR DEMOCRAT (57) by Norman Rush
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