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Zuckung,
habilements
formicating
candent
bradyauxetic
magiscule
blepharoplasty-procedure,
blepharoprosthesis
arachnodactylism
homodontic
the fake-rural blacktop roads of upscale Weston,
The appetite for the appeal of it: this also is U.S.A. The U.S.A. drive for spectation, which your culture teaches.
when one’s allergy to the confining realities of the present
vademecumish
thanatoptic
woppsed
Kertwang
oogly
fremitic
Why is the truth usually not just un- but anti- interesting?
venulated
cognito
aphasiac
the audience can tell the etiology is going to get head-clutchingly prolix and involved;
circumoral
GAUDEAMUS IGITUR
THIS CHAPTER IS VERY CONFUSING. On second reading, it would be useful to review comments in Chapter 23 of Elegant Complexity. Maybe also some blog posts? Take notes.
amanuentic
a surreal union of both Rush L.– and Hillary R.C.–disillusioned fringes that drew mainstream-media guffaws at their first Convention
as the Dems and G.O.P.s stood on either side watching dumbly, like doubles partners who each think the other’s surely got it,
petroleated
who said he wasn’t going to stand here and ask us to make some tough choices because he was standing here promising he was going to make them for us. Who asked us simply to sit back and enjoy the show.
American penchant for absolution via irony
Experialism
frappeurs
purled
‘The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.’
‘What fire dies when you feed it?
SIGMOID COLON,’
de-map
O.N.A.N.’s official crest, a sombreroed eagle with a maple leaf in its mouth,
faute-de-mieux
bien sûr.
catastatic
redemised
resembled that kind of stiffly conspicuous nonrecognition that e.g. accompanies farts at formal functions.
halated
homodontic
viewers had been conditioned (conditioned, rather deliciously, by the Big Four Networks and their advertisers themselves, Hal notes) to associate the Freedom to Choose and the Right to Be Entertained with all that was U.S. and true.
No more Network reluctance to make a program too entertaining for fear its commercials would pale in comparison.
’ ‘High-quality entertainment. High value for the dollar of leisure and spectation.’
