by
D.T. Max
177
Chapter 6
"Unalone and Unstressed"
"Unalone and Unstressed"
5
terms
1
notes
rubicund
(en)
(adj, especially of someone's face) having a ruddy complexion; high-colored
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satyriasis
(en)
uncontrollable or excessive sexual desire in a man
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"Sad" became the tocsin ringing through the piece, sadness as the consequence of too much plenty: sad waiters, sad cruise ship-goers taking pointless videos of other sad people pointing video cameras at them from their own cruise ships, and sad, senseless attempts by Americans to amuse themselves in the absence of any larger spiritual idea. "Choose with care," Marathe warns in Infinite Jest. "You are what you love. No?" Walace's cruise ship piece was about the price of failing to choose well.
On the cruise ship piece
"Sad" became the tocsin ringing through the piece, sadness as the consequence of too much plenty: sad waiters, sad cruise ship-goers taking pointless videos of other sad people pointing video cameras at them from their own cruise ships, and sad, senseless attempts by Americans to amuse themselves in the absence of any larger spiritual idea. "Choose with care," Marathe warns in Infinite Jest. "You are what you love. No?" Walace's cruise ship piece was about the price of failing to choose well.
On the cruise ship piece
tocsin
(en)
an alarm bell or signal (from Old French)
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"Sad" became the tocsin ringing through the piece, sadness as the consequence of too much plenty:
unknown
7 years, 7 months ago
"Sad" became the tocsin ringing through the piece, sadness as the consequence of too much plenty:
unknown
7 years, 7 months ago
lacuna
(en)
an unfilled space; a gap (plural: lacunae)
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miglior fabbro
(it)
Italian for "the better craftsman"; from the dedication to Ezra Pound in T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land; itself a quote from Dante's Divine Comedy
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