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hijack, jinx, jingle, beijing, jive, jilted, jittery, jill, hijab, haji, hajj, hijinks and 149 more...
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slime, mnemoptical, reverbed, forefeel, fair copy, scriggle, gaufrette, inamorata, wanter, noctambule, incarnadine, intercadence and 59 more...
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yarb Same here. I was desperately disappointed. Found it sterile and remote... only kept reading for the vocab. Nov 5, 2009
mollusque I did the opposite, yarb. I wrote down lots of words to start with, when I was on my Nabokov jag a few months ago. But I petered out on Ada after about 100 pages; I just didn't care for the story. Nov 5, 2009
yarb I did an Ada list last year, but only started dog-earing about a quarter of the way through, so I guess you're not that far in yet - or maybe not, since one can imagine five or ten different Ada lists with nothing in common... Nov 4, 2009
mollusque Rolled up in its case was an old "jikker" or skimmer, a blue magic rug with Arabian designs, faded but still enchanting, which Uncle Daniel's father had used in his boyhood and later flown when drunk.
--Vladimir Nabokov, 1969, Ada, or Ardor Nov 4, 2009