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What Light Can Do: Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World
by Robert Hass

What Light Can Do: Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World
by Robert Hass

What Light Can Do: Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World
by Robert Hass

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vatic (en)

(adjective) prophetic, oracular; describing or predicting what will happen in the future

426

their vatic sayings

—p.426 Cormac McCarthy's Trilogy; or, The Puritan Conscience and the Mexican Dark (421) by Robert Hass
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their vatic sayings

—p.426 Cormac McCarthy's Trilogy; or, The Puritan Conscience and the Mexican Dark (421) by Robert Hass
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4 years, 4 months ago

lapidary (en)

relating to stone and gems and the work involved in engraving, cutting, or polishing

429

McCarthy is capable of lifting out of this hypnotic and lapidary directness into high Faulknerian crash-and-burn

—p.429 Cormac McCarthy's Trilogy; or, The Puritan Conscience and the Mexican Dark (421) by Robert Hass
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McCarthy is capable of lifting out of this hypnotic and lapidary directness into high Faulknerian crash-and-burn

—p.429 Cormac McCarthy's Trilogy; or, The Puritan Conscience and the Mexican Dark (421) by Robert Hass
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4 years, 4 months ago

glissando (en)

(noun) a rapid sliding up or down the musical scale

433

the long glissando wail of the clarinet that begins George Gershwin’s 1924 composition Rhapsody in Blue

—p.433 Black Nature (432) by Robert Hass
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the long glissando wail of the clarinet that begins George Gershwin’s 1924 composition Rhapsody in Blue

—p.433 Black Nature (432) by Robert Hass
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4 years, 4 months ago