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Lyndon
4
terms
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notes
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"Lyndon looked over at my corner only once, when I lit a smoke, baring his teeth until I put the long cigarette out in a low ceramic receptacle I prayed was an ashtray."
idea for DFW story
"Lyndon looked over at my corner only once, when I lit a smoke, baring his teeth until I put the long cigarette out in a low ceramic receptacle I prayed was an ashtray."
idea for DFW story
invective
(en)
insulting, abusive, or highly critical language
87
There was often far more of this constituents' mail, these Voices of the People, full of invective or adulation or petition for redress or advantage
uncertain
7 years, 9 months ago
There was often far more of this constituents' mail, these Voices of the People, full of invective or adulation or petition for redress or advantage
uncertain
7 years, 9 months ago
canter
(en)
(noun) a three-beat gait of a horse or other quadruped between a trot and a gallop; (verb) move to that gait
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He did run in 1960, or rather canter, in the primaries
uncertain
7 years, 9 months ago
He did run in 1960, or rather canter, in the primaries
uncertain
7 years, 9 months ago
scuttlebutt
(en)
rumor or gossip (deriving from the nautical term for the cask used to serve water)
110
tympana
(en)
(plural for tympanum) the recessed, usually triangular space enclosed between the horizontal and sloping cornices of a pediment, often decorated with sculpture
112
the mirror with frames carved like tympana
unknown
7 years, 9 months ago
the mirror with frames carved like tympana
unknown
7 years, 9 months ago
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[...] eyes yolked with a high blue film of heartfelt pain, open and staring at the bedroom's skylight through Duverger's narrow fingers [...]
this expression is so beautiful and reminds me of High Windows for some reason
[...] eyes yolked with a high blue film of heartfelt pain, open and staring at the bedroom's skylight through Duverger's narrow fingers [...]
this expression is so beautiful and reminds me of High Windows for some reason