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vatic
The Fun Stuff: And Other Essays

a kind of vatic histrionic groping

great word

—p.58 Cormac McCarthy's The Road (50) by James Wood
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gambrel

they found a ham gambreled up in a high corner

quoting Cormac McCarthy, The Road

—p.53 Cormac McCarthy's The Road (50) missing author
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ballast

The novel's bulk has already so properly ballasted Ray, has made his mind so present to us

I thought it meant like bombarded or something lol oops

—p.45 Thinking: Norman Rush (37) by James Wood
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free indirect style

a superb combination of free indirect style--the technical term for third-person narration that is so close to a character's thought that it resembles first-person monologue--and stream of consciousness

—p.42 Thinking: Norman Rush (37) by James Wood
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meliorism

Ray is a liberal meliorist

—p.39 Thinking: Norman Rush (37) by James Wood
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