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vatic (en)

(adjective) prophetic, oracular; describing or predicting what will happen in the future

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vatic


Granta 152: Still Life
by Granta

Granta 152: Still Life
by Granta

Granta 152: Still Life
by Granta


Their piacular dreams move them to strange poetries, inverted vatic insight

—p.243 Spring (242) by China Miéville
notable
4 years, 10 months ago

October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
by China Miéville

October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
by China Miéville

October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
by China Miéville


he certainly emanates a vatic intensity reminiscent of its practices

Rasputin

—p.35 The Prehistory of 1917 (5) by China Miéville
uncertain
9 years ago

Salvage #6: Evidence of Things Not Seen
by multiple authors

Salvage #6: Evidence of Things Not Seen
by multiple authors

Salvage #6: Evidence of Things Not Seen
by multiple authors


And it is afraid, too, of the vatic and exhortatory.

on Apophatic Marxism

—p.129 Silence in Debris: Towards an Apophatic Marxism (115) by China Miéville
uncertain
7 years, 10 months ago

The Fun Stuff: And Other Essays
by James Wood

The Fun Stuff: And Other Essays
by James Wood

The Fun Stuff: And Other Essays
by James Wood


a kind of vatic histrionic groping

great word

—p.58 Cormac McCarthy's The Road (50) by James Wood
unknown
9 years, 1 month ago

What Light Can Do: Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World
by Robert Hass

What Light Can Do: Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World
by Robert Hass

What Light Can Do: Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World
by Robert Hass


their vatic sayings

—p.426 Cormac McCarthy's Trilogy; or, The Puritan Conscience and the Mexican Dark (421) by Robert Hass
notable
6 years, 9 months ago