by
Renata Adler
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II. PITCH DARK
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terms
2
notes
abrogation
(en)
the repeal or abolition of a law, right, or agreement
67
While there’s nothing wrong with the miraculous, it always requires an abrogation of the law in one’s own special case
notable
1 year, 7 months ago
While there’s nothing wrong with the miraculous, it always requires an abrogation of the law in one’s own special case
notable
1 year, 7 months ago
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[...] I ask Nicole where she is from. She says Chicago, with what is so clearly a German o that I’m taken aback. I just say, Really. She says, Before that Minneapolis. I have now firmly decided that by tomorrow I shall be gone from Ireland. [...]
lmao
[...] I ask Nicole where she is from. She says Chicago, with what is so clearly a German o that I’m taken aback. I just say, Really. She says, Before that Minneapolis. I have now firmly decided that by tomorrow I shall be gone from Ireland. [...]
lmao
adumbrate
(en)
report or represent in outline; foreshadow or symbolize
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he did not know that the experience he has put me through, all those times, in all those years, is the one I’ve adumbrated, for a few hours, from time to time, just now?
notable
1 year, 7 months ago
he did not know that the experience he has put me through, all those times, in all those years, is the one I’ve adumbrated, for a few hours, from time to time, just now?
notable
1 year, 7 months ago
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[...] Nicole says, When I was a child, and Papa, of course, was a conductor. William, from the depths of his cups, says, helpfully, Orchestral? And Nicole, annoyed, perhaps, at the interruption, says, U-Boat. There is a pause. She says, more improbably still, In those days, everyone’s Papa was. Back home in Chicago? I wonder, or Minneapolis?
omg
[...] Nicole says, When I was a child, and Papa, of course, was a conductor. William, from the depths of his cups, says, helpfully, Orchestral? And Nicole, annoyed, perhaps, at the interruption, says, U-Boat. There is a pause. She says, more improbably still, In those days, everyone’s Papa was. Back home in Chicago? I wonder, or Minneapolis?
omg