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remora
Both Flesh and Not: Essays

attach its name like a remora to the tournament's flank

referring to "A U.S.T.A Event" after all instances of "the U.S. Open"

—p.135 Democracy and Commerce at the U.S. Open (127) by David Foster Wallace
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agnate

two ethnically agnate and archetypally distinct foes

—p.133 Democracy and Commerce at the U.S. Open (127) by David Foster Wallace
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ambit

But recall to this abstraction's ambit prenominate stuff

—p.113 The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress (73) by David Foster Wallace
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weltschmerz

weltschmerz as opposed to naïveté or hubris

—p.112 The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress (73) by David Foster Wallace
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cingulum

history & data & the cingulum of Just the Facts, Ma'am

referring the U.S.'s experience with myth-making and myth-worship

—p.106 The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress (73) by David Foster Wallace
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