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exegesis »
(from the Greek for "to lead out") a critical exp…
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maundering »
rambling OR meandering
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quondam »
(adjective) former, sometime (from Latin)
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bivouac »
(noun) a usually temporary encampment under littl…
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emendation »
the process of making a revision or correction to…
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This is, ultimately, a book about the world. It inquires ab…
Fiction can deal with all the world’s objects and ideas tog…
We judge a work on its integrity. Often we examine a work’s…
There are several strategies which may ameliorate these dif…
Anyone with wit and training can search a work for sense. A…
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p.86
autarkic »
the condition of self-sufficiency, especially eco…
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lucent »
(adjective) glowing with light; luminous / (adjec…
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apostate »
a person who renounces a religious or political b…
p.128
hierophant »
a person, especially a priest in ancient Greece, …
p.129
lagniappe »
(noun) a small gift given a customer by a merchan…
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When Lou was a girl, her breasts grew both calamitously ear…
She asked herself: Would she rather have his love, or hers …
AFTER THEY MARRIED SHE learned to feel their skin as double…
TWO YEARS LATER THEY were dancing in the kitchen to “Lady B…
One July morning, cold stirred Lou. The tide had withdrawn …