The Baffler Issue 53: The Consensusphere [terms]

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(noun) a high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water / (noun) a prominent mass of land overlooking or projecting into a lowland / (noun) a bodily prominence

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what it must be like to stand on this promontory of years, looking out. Promontory or proscenium, maybe: it is a subset of course of the dramatic monologue

—p.105 Poetry Lessons from the Advanced in Age (102) by Michael Hofmann

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what it must be like to stand on this promontory of years, looking out. Promontory or proscenium, maybe: it is a subset of course of the dramatic monologue

—p.105 Poetry Lessons from the Advanced in Age (102) by Michael Hofmann

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(noun) a brief moment of emotional excitement; shudder thrill

128

A frisson of euphoria and disgust

—p.128 Commodity of Doom (126) missing author

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A frisson of euphoria and disgust

—p.128 Commodity of Doom (126) missing author

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