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inveigh

No matter how much they scream or prance about or inveigh to heaven or lament their misfortune

—p.273 Happenings: an art of radical juxtaposition (263) by Susan Sontag
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immanence

not all eschatological theories are theories of history. There is another kind of eschatology, which might be called the eschatology of immanence (as opposed to the more familiar eschatology of transcendence)

—p.262 Psychoanalysis and Norman O. Brown's Life Against Death (256) by Susan Sontag
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eschatology

Traditionally, eschatology has taken the form of an expectation of the future transcendence of the human condition for all mankind in exorably advancing history

—p.262 Psychoanalysis and Norman O. Brown's Life Against Death (256) by Susan Sontag
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aleatory

there is aleatory performance now as well as composition

—p.228 Jack Smth's Flaming Creatures (226) by Susan Sontag
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prurient

too full of pathos and too ingenuous to be prurient

—p.227 Jack Smth's Flaming Creatures (226) by Susan Sontag
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