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(verb) to give off or reflect light in bright beams or flashes; sparkle / (verb) to be brilliant or showy in technique or style

127

a coruscating epilogue to fin-de-siècle Vienna

—p.127 Black Danube (117) by George Steiner
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a coruscating epilogue to fin-de-siècle Vienna

—p.127 Black Danube (117) by George Steiner
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unable to be resisted or avoided; inescapable

130

Ineluctably, collective-socialist ideals seem to lead to one or another form of the Gulag.

—p.130 B.B. (128) by George Steiner
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Ineluctably, collective-socialist ideals seem to lead to one or another form of the Gulag.

—p.130 B.B. (128) by George Steiner
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(noun) a political principle or policy directed toward the incorporation of irredentas within the boundaries of their historically or ethnically related political unit / a person advocating the restoration to their country of any territory formerly belonging to it

130

So once again the old crazy drums of irredentist territorial claims and ethnic autonomy are pounding in the jungle of the cities.

—p.130 B.B. (128) by George Steiner
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So once again the old crazy drums of irredentist territorial claims and ethnic autonomy are pounding in the jungle of the cities.

—p.130 B.B. (128) by George Steiner
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(noun) stop constant (in phonetics)

143

between the crotchets and plosives of the motorcycle engine

forgot the meaning

—p.143 Uneasy Rider (142) by George Steiner
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between the crotchets and plosives of the motorcycle engine

forgot the meaning

—p.143 Uneasy Rider (142) by George Steiner
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an ancient religious movement that has to do with duality? "an elaborate dualistic cosmology describing the struggle between a good, spiritual world of light, and an evil, material world of darkness"

144

Pirsig's work is, like so much of classic American literature, Manichaean.

formed of dualities

—p.144 Uneasy Rider (142) by George Steiner
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Pirsig's work is, like so much of classic American literature, Manichaean.

formed of dualities

—p.144 Uneasy Rider (142) by George Steiner
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(noun) a gluttonous, greedy, or rapacious person OR a type of bird

152

Coleridge, supremely of this breed, spoke of "literary-cormorants,"

—p.152 Rare Bird (148) by George Steiner
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Coleridge, supremely of this breed, spoke of "literary-cormorants,"

—p.152 Rare Bird (148) by George Steiner
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(noun) historically, a high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire OR a pedantic or elitist bureaucrat OR senior person of influence in academia or literary circles / (adj) deliberately superior or complex; esoteric, highbrow, obscurantist

158

In an ecstasy of mandarin narcissism, you go further.

—p.158 Dead Letters (157) by George Steiner
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In an ecstasy of mandarin narcissism, you go further.

—p.158 Dead Letters (157) by George Steiner
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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

158

it becomes a palimpsest of literary-historical-stlistic sources and allusions

—p.158 Dead Letters (157) by George Steiner
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it becomes a palimpsest of literary-historical-stlistic sources and allusions

—p.158 Dead Letters (157) by George Steiner
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(verb) to travel especially on foot; walk / (verb) to walk or travel over; traverse

159

Intimacy with the erotic peregrinations of Lord Byron is equally requisite.

—p.159 Dead Letters (157) by George Steiner
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Intimacy with the erotic peregrinations of Lord Byron is equally requisite.

—p.159 Dead Letters (157) by George Steiner
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a recasting or adaptation especially of a literary work or musical composition

160

His ear for parody, pastiche, rifacimento, satiric takeoff is exceptional.

—p.160 Dead Letters (157) by George Steiner
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His ear for parody, pastiche, rifacimento, satiric takeoff is exceptional.

—p.160 Dead Letters (157) by George Steiner
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