(verb) to give off or reflect light in bright beams or flashes; sparkle / (verb) to be brilliant or showy in technique or style
a coruscating epilogue to fin-de-siècle Vienna
a coruscating epilogue to fin-de-siècle Vienna
unable to be resisted or avoided; inescapable
Ineluctably, collective-socialist ideals seem to lead to one or another form of the Gulag.
Ineluctably, collective-socialist ideals seem to lead to one or another form of the Gulag.
(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
So once again the old crazy drums of irredentist territorial claims and ethnic autonomy are pounding in the jungle of the cities.
So once again the old crazy drums of irredentist territorial claims and ethnic autonomy are pounding in the jungle of the cities.
(noun) stop constant (in phonetics)
between the crotchets and plosives of the motorcycle engine
forgot the meaning
between the crotchets and plosives of the motorcycle engine
forgot the meaning
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"
Pirsig's work is, like so much of classic American literature, Manichaean.
formed of dualities
Pirsig's work is, like so much of classic American literature, Manichaean.
formed of dualities
(noun) a gluttonous, greedy, or rapacious person OR a type of bird
Coleridge, supremely of this breed, spoke of "literary-cormorants,"
Coleridge, supremely of this breed, spoke of "literary-cormorants,"
(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
In an ecstasy of mandarin narcissism, you go further.
In an ecstasy of mandarin narcissism, you go further.
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
it becomes a palimpsest of literary-historical-stlistic sources and allusions
it becomes a palimpsest of literary-historical-stlistic sources and allusions
(verb) to travel especially on foot; walk / (verb) to walk or travel over; traverse
Intimacy with the erotic peregrinations of Lord Byron is equally requisite.
Intimacy with the erotic peregrinations of Lord Byron is equally requisite.
a recasting or adaptation especially of a literary work or musical composition
His ear for parody, pastiche, rifacimento, satiric takeoff is exceptional.
His ear for parody, pastiche, rifacimento, satiric takeoff is exceptional.