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Gothamite
(en)
a journalistic nickname for New York City OR an English village, proverbial for the foolishness of its inhabitants.
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bourgeoisie
(en)
the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes
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Wissahickon
(en)
tributary of the Schuylkill River in Pennsylvania
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schist
(en)
a coarse-grained metamorphic rock that consists of layers of different minerals and can be split into thin irregular plates
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valedictory
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(adj) serving as a farewell OR (noun) a farewell address
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sansculottes
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a lower-class Parisian republican in the French Revolution; an extreme republican or revolutionary
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"Anarchism" connecting with the sansculottes not by way of history but, rather, via "Cockroaches"
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"Anarchism" connecting with the sansculottes not by way of history but, rather, via "Cockroaches"
about The Encyclopedia of New York City
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Derridean
(en)
pertaining to Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), French Algerian-born philosopher and founder of deconstruction
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The chief pleasure of the Encyclopedia lies in a kind of Derridean lateral slide of assocation.
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The chief pleasure of the Encyclopedia lies in a kind of Derridean lateral slide of assocation.
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