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edifying
The Fun Stuff: And Other Essays

Oprah Winfrey, who selected the novel for her remorselessly edifying book club

—p.61 Cormac McCarthy's The Road (50) by James Wood
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eschatology

the idea that the boy may be the last god--an eschatological plot that is a kind of more philosophical version of The Terminator

—p.60 Cormac McCarthy's The Road (50) by James Wood
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peroration

closing the scene with a rather lovely peroration

—p.60 Cormac McCarthy's The Road (50) by James Wood
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vatic

a kind of vatic histrionic groping

great word

—p.58 Cormac McCarthy's The Road (50) by James Wood
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gambrel

they found a ham gambreled up in a high corner

quoting Cormac McCarthy, The Road

—p.53 Cormac McCarthy's The Road (50) missing author
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