What new words did you come across while reading?

[Laure]

Cuniculture - conejo - rabbit in Spanish ... Must be some latin roots, great word.

[Hugh]

this is a longer version of the list of words I looked up (in some cases unsuccessfully) while reading Hopscotch: antinomy, aulic, auscultation, cadastral, catoblepas, chitterling, chryselephantine, cinerary, coenaesthesis, columbarium, coprolite, cuniculture, cuspidation, echolalia, eclogue, elution, epistomology, epithelial, exordium, extravasation, geometrid, gnoseologist, helicoid, incunabula, macaronic, mana, mantic, mnemotechny, nebiole, nephelibate, obolus, oneiromancy, palmiped, promissoration, propedeutic, rotogravure, ruleman, satori, serape, soteriology, stupa, teleleological, tragacanth, trismegistic

[Mark]

Impressive list! Maybe I recognize four: epistemology, stupa, teleological, trismegistic.

[Haaze]

Ah, that is a list to get lost in Hugh. It makes me want to read Hopscotch at the same time as I want to run in the opposite direction as fast as I can. So is this the translator having a good time or is actually Cortázar's voice? Seeing these words I have a feeling of that Cortázar's writing is an extreme challenge, Almost every time I read a translation I sense that I am on the other side of a window. The glass shields/blocks me from the true appreciation of the original.

[Haaze]

Mark wrote: "I think what I have taken more from Ulysses rather than words are phrases.

"...like his own rare thoughts a chemistry of stars." pg. 20

"...beneath a reign of uncouth stars." pg. 48

-)"

Lovely phrases Mark! :)
The last one sounds like something written by Thomas Hardy. He often mulls on nature and the night sky itself....

[Mark]

This one is fairly famous:

"The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit." pg. 651

[Haaze]

Joyce is a richer realm than I imagined....

[Mark]

Haaze wrote: "Joyce is a richer realm than I imagined...."

Same word my old professor used to describe Ulysses.
"A very rich work."
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[Laure]

I have such a big list from Charlotte Brontee - she is a wizzard with vocabulary (a bit like Joyce). I'll post a list later on this week.
She's got a very bad opinion of the French sadly in her book (made me laugh a lot!) - but her French is impeccable of course.:D