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The Point, Issue 21
by The Point (editor)

The Point, Issue 21
by The Point (editor)

The Point, Issue 21
by The Point (editor)

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Normal Novels
by Becca Rothfield

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The Irish novelist Sally Rooney is a normal person. Or so she is always insisting, often with a trace of defensive desperation.

Rothfield, B. (2020). Normal Novels. The Point, 21, pp. 171-182

ossivorous (en)

bone-eating

171

phenomenology, in its urge to articulate the flux and the unruly hum of “real” experience, is invariably ossivorous

—p.171 by Becca Rothfield
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phenomenology, in its urge to articulate the flux and the unruly hum of “real” experience, is invariably ossivorous

—p.171 by Becca Rothfield
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3 years, 5 months ago

limn (en)

(verb) depict or describe in painting or words; suffuse or highlight (something) with a bright color or light

174

I like Rooney when she gloats and strives, when she is limned with the angry light of ambition

—p.174 by Becca Rothfield
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I like Rooney when she gloats and strives, when she is limned with the angry light of ambition

—p.174 by Becca Rothfield
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anodyne (en)

(noun) a painkilling drug or medicine

177

less innocuous than Rooney’s politically anodyne writing is her inflated reception

—p.177 by Becca Rothfield
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less innocuous than Rooney’s politically anodyne writing is her inflated reception

—p.177 by Becca Rothfield
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3 years, 5 months ago