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encomium
Both Flesh and Not: Essays

much of that criticism consisting in apologiae, encomiums

—p.245 The Best of the Prose Poem (243) by David Foster Wallace
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propitiate

the Minotaur, a hideous teratoid monster who has to be secreted in a special labyrinth and propitiated with human flesh

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—p.234 Rhetoric and the Math Melodrama (209) by David Foster Wallace
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solecism

riddled with ESL-ish solecisms

—p.225 Rhetoric and the Math Melodrama (209) by David Foster Wallace
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schlemiel

the neurotic schlemiel

—p.224 Rhetoric and the Math Melodrama (209) by David Foster Wallace
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bathos

Also vague and kind of bathetic is the novel's depiction of actual mathematical work

—p.223 Rhetoric and the Math Melodrama (209) by David Foster Wallace
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