belled interview
(en)
a one-sided conversation (after a term coined for Nabokov's critique of telephone conversations where the reader hears only one speaker)
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the one-sided conversations, which we might call the belled interview
I think he coins this phrase here
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the one-sided conversations, which we might call the belled interview
I think he coins this phrase here
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6 years, 11 months ago
antinomy
(en)
a contradiction between two beliefs or conclusions that are in themselves reasonable; a paradox
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editorialising, in an interview of DFW; defined by example
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editorialising, in an interview of DFW; defined by example
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roughage
(en)
fibrous indigestible material in vegetable foodstuffs that aids the passage of food and waste products through the gut
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a term used by his mother
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a term used by his mother
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anodyne
(en)
(noun) a painkilling drug or medicine
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an anodyne against loneliness
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an anodyne against loneliness
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puerile
(en)
childishly silly and trivial
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on Americans' relationship with TV
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on Americans' relationship with TV
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ineluctable
(en)
unable to be resisted or avoided; inescapable
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on suffering's relation to being human
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on suffering's relation to being human
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teleological
(en)
the philosophical attempt to describe things in terms of their apparent intrinsic purpose, directive principle, or goal, irrespective of human use or opinion
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on pleasure being an end in itself
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on pleasure being an end in itself
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mimetic
(en)
imitation, especially imitative representation of the real world in art and literature
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on the purpose of fiction
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on the purpose of fiction
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schizogenic
(en)
asexual reproduction by fission of the parent organism or part
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on his experience growing up
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on his experience growing up
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cincture
(en)
(noun) the act of encircling / (noun) an encircling area / (noun) girdle belt / (noun) a cord or sash of cloth worn around an ecclesiastical vestment or the habit of a religious
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cinctures and constraints
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cinctures and constraints
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