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Choice words from Adair's translation of La Disparition
confocal, quiddity, burin, sororal, caparison, lancinating, simoon, fustian, turbot, hirudination, turbid, doss and 31 more...
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yarb Am I to infer that this word means "death by a gigantic worm sucking one's blood"?
If so, it's more than a bit spiffy! Aug 11, 2010
jaime_d ". . .and in Honolulu his fifth, Urbain, was a victim of hirudination, slain by a gigantic worm sucking his blood, totally draining him, so that as many as 20 transfusions would fail to bring him back." Gilbert Adair translation of Georges Perec's La Disparition Aug 11, 2010