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ballast
The Fun Stuff: And Other Essays

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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hermeneutic

Ishiguro, as ever, is interested in far foggier hermeneutics

—p.29 Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go (28) by James Wood
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vertiginous

we experience a vertiginous relationship to a select number of photographs of humans

—p.24 W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz (16) by James Wood
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