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Ben Lerner
coeval
(en)
(adjective) of the same or equal age, antiquity, or duration
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anyone who had ever paused before the lamp as he was pausing was briefly coeval with him
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3 years, 10 months ago
anyone who had ever paused before the lamp as he was pausing was briefly coeval with him
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3 years, 10 months ago
proprioception
(en)
(noun) the sense of the relative position of one's own parts of the body and strength of effort being employed in movement; also known as "the kinesthetic sense"
108
a proprioceptive flicker in advance of the communal body
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3 years, 10 months ago
a proprioceptive flicker in advance of the communal body
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3 years, 10 months ago
palimpsest
(en)
a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain
114
a kind of palimpsestic plagiarism that moves through bodies and time, a collective song with no single origin, or whose origin has been erased
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3 years, 10 months ago
a kind of palimpsestic plagiarism that moves through bodies and time, a collective song with no single origin, or whose origin has been erased
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3 years, 10 months ago
chthonic
(en)
(adjective) of or relating to the underworld; infernal
132
somnambular
(en)
to walk or perform another act while asleep or in a sleeplike condition
172
and then I somnambulated on—unshowered, unshaven—in the dazzling light
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3 years, 10 months ago
and then I somnambulated on—unshowered, unshaven—in the dazzling light
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3 years, 10 months ago
haruspicy
(en)
the art or practice of divination (ancient Rome)
206
Never forget that you can put your clothes back on and leave the institution before the doctor arrives to read your future in your organs, the modern haruspicy that exorbitant insurance barely covers.
uncertain
3 years, 10 months ago
Never forget that you can put your clothes back on and leave the institution before the doctor arrives to read your future in your organs, the modern haruspicy that exorbitant insurance barely covers.
uncertain
3 years, 10 months ago