n+1 Issue 3: Reality Principle [terms] | Bookmarker

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(adjective) outmoded old-fashioned / (adjective) incapacitated or disqualified for active duty by advanced age / (adjective) older than the typical member of a specified group / (verb) to make, declare, or prove obsolete or out-of-date / (verb) to retire and pension because of age or infirmity / (verb) to become retired / (verb) to become antiquated

2

For some people, a superannuated youth means postponing the question of whether you made it into the middle class

—p.2 A Boom Deferred (1) missing author

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For some people, a superannuated youth means postponing the question of whether you made it into the middle class

—p.2 A Boom Deferred (1) missing author

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(noun) a pet lamb / (noun) pet / (verb) to treat as a pet; pamper

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This society that cosseted us, and now permits us to try a new restaurant once a month, bribes our poorer contemporaries off to Iraq.

—p.2 A Boom Deferred (1) missing author

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This society that cosseted us, and now permits us to try a new restaurant once a month, bribes our poorer contemporaries off to Iraq.

—p.2 A Boom Deferred (1) missing author

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(adjective) producing no useful result; futile / (adjective) being at leisure; idle / (adjective) lacking use or effect; functionless

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As Alan Greenspan observed in his otiose way

I thought it meant oily lol

—p.17 More Blood, Less Oil (15) missing author

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As Alan Greenspan observed in his otiose way

I thought it meant oily lol

—p.17 More Blood, Less Oil (15) missing author

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(noun) a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility / (noun) a state of lowered physiological activity typically characterized by reduced metabolism, heart rate, respiration, and body temperature that occurs in varying degrees especially in hibernating and estivating animals / (noun) apathy dullness

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trading the torpor of life for the efficiency of living

—p.21 The Chatroom Society (19) missing author

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trading the torpor of life for the efficiency of living

—p.21 The Chatroom Society (19) missing author

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a summary of the principles of Christian religion in the form of questions and answers, used for the instruction of Christians

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intoning a prefight catechism

—p.52 A Violent Season (41) missing author

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intoning a prefight catechism

—p.52 A Violent Season (41) missing author

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(verb) to make a crackling sound; crackle

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The pressure of her media visibility crepitates through every venue in which she appears.

—p.53 A Violent Season (41) missing author

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The pressure of her media visibility crepitates through every venue in which she appears.

—p.53 A Violent Season (41) missing author

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(noun) a painkilling drug or medicine

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utterly anodyne texts

—p.75 The Neoliberal Imagination (69) missing author

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utterly anodyne texts

—p.75 The Neoliberal Imagination (69) missing author

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the sheltered side; the side away from the wind

107

the shuddering lees of huge semis

i think this is the right meaning?

—p.107 Or Things I Did Not Do or Say (105) by Benjamin Kunkel

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the shuddering lees of huge semis

i think this is the right meaning?

—p.107 Or Things I Did Not Do or Say (105) by Benjamin Kunkel

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relating to judicial proceedings and the administration of the law

116

I turned around and took in the room, feeling haughty and juridical. I saw no mitigating much less exculpatory evidence, nothing to encourage the commutation of his sentence.

the characterisation of the narrator is great

—p.116 Or Things I Did Not Do or Say (105) by Benjamin Kunkel

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I turned around and took in the room, feeling haughty and juridical. I saw no mitigating much less exculpatory evidence, nothing to encourage the commutation of his sentence.

the characterisation of the narrator is great

—p.116 Or Things I Did Not Do or Say (105) by Benjamin Kunkel

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(noun) a fancy word for boxer

129

rather than fall into easy pugilism

—p.129 A Reply to the Editors (129) by James Wood

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rather than fall into easy pugilism

—p.129 A Reply to the Editors (129) by James Wood

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