A list of 59 words by 52james.
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52james commented on the list nifty-book-words
The "small and vicious anthroparian" in Cormac McCarthy's Outer Dark looks like he might be the man with no name who gets Harmon's boots when Harmon gets the boots of the guy who takes the boots Holme had been wearing since he swiped them from the squire he chopped stovewood for. The "anthrop-" would allude to anthropoid, since a man with no name is not quite human. The "-arian" may connote the politics of the agrarian movement, which tries to redistribute real estate more equitably but usually turns out much as violently as the murderous robbery of the wagon driver attacked on Pg 51. McCarthy makes up words like this to encourage readers to ponder. Think about walking a mile in the man with no name's boots, those stinky ones Culla Holme gets stuck with.
October 7, 2009
52james commented on the list nifty-book-words
in John Banville's The Untouchable, Prince Wilhelm makes the narrator picture "chainmail and lance and flashing tarnhelm," though why a magic cap that would make wearer invisible should flash may only show how high Banville will reach for an exotic obscure word.
September 5, 2018
52james commented on the list nifty-book-words
Renouard, the Planter of Malata, sees the headland of his Indonesian island gloriously nimbed by the gold of rising sun. Conrad has this guy lost in love with a gorgeous gal out there in the boonies hunting for another dead buy Renouard has fairly recently buried! Ghosts. Secrets. Passion. Lots like Heart of Darkness, where a romantic halo of Love glows around a dead center.
October 7, 2020
52james commented on the list nifty-book-words
from Balzac's Physiology of Marriage. Might have something to do with eugenics or puericulture? Related to the beautiful "calli" in callipygian?
September 2, 2022