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Adrian Buck
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Chroma (129) purity or intensity of colour - not sure it makes sense in this context; architectronics (133) musical, literary or artistic structure - Kant used it differently; monocerous (138) one horned rhinoceros; lambent (140) glowing; fustian (142) pompous pretentious language.
— Aug 17, 2022 03:03AM
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Adrian Buck
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Ineubilable (226) incapable of being cleared of clouds; scholium (233) a marginal or explanatory note - rather like this; mammate (233) having breasts.
— Sep 04, 2022 01:59AM
Adrian Buck
is on page 227 of 256
"What if we awake one day, all of us, and find ourselves utterly unable to read? I wish you to gasp not only at what you read but at the miracle of its being readable..."
— Sep 04, 2022 01:53AM
Adrian Buck
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Perlustration (201) a thorough inspection; ephemerides (216) tables of future planetary positions; pointillé (218) a subtle distinction - English now omits the accent; acanthus (225) carved leaf decorating Corinthian columns; architrave (225) beam that rests on the columns.
— Sep 03, 2022 01:21AM
Adrian Buck
is on page 208 of 256
"...the name Zembla is a corruption not of the Russian zemlya, but of Semblerland, a land of reflections, of 'resemblers'" - and there was I thinking it was a corruption of Zenda, as in "Prisoner of..."
— Sep 03, 2022 01:11AM
Adrian Buck
is on page 194 of 256
Enciente (181) French for pregnant - not italicised; revanched (182) NID; chignon (188) coil or knot of hair; erkling (188) sinister elf; supernal (192) relating to the sky or heavens.
— Sep 01, 2022 12:40AM
Adrian Buck
is on page 194 of 256
"...but that was a different Russia - a Russia that hated tyrants and Philistines, injustice and cruelty, the Russia of ladies and gentlemen and liberal aspirations." - the Russia of Oblomov? The one that ignored 38% of population.
— Sep 01, 2022 12:33AM
Adrian Buck
is on page 180 of 256
Botkin (175) a dagger; metastatistics (179) NID; psychopompos (179) a guide of souls to the place of the dead.
— Aug 26, 2022 01:50AM
Adrian Buck
is on page 178 of 256
"Confession with us..." - I suppose an Orthodox writer might fail to appreciate that the key difference between Prostestant and Catholic is that a Protestant doesn't need a priest to confess.
— Aug 26, 2022 01:46AM
Adrian Buck
is on page 171 of 256
Antiphonal (161) of music played alternately by two groups; culm (167) the hollow stem of a grass that bears the flower; houghmagandy (169) Scottish literary word for sexual intercourse; glycines (169) French for wisteria - not sure this counts.
— Aug 23, 2022 11:33PM
Adrian Buck
is on page 164 of 256
'A beautiful woman should be like a compass rose of ivory with four parts of ebony'
— Aug 23, 2022 11:24PM
