Words I have had to look up while reading “The Complete Fiction Of W.M. Spackman”

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• Petey says:

  May 24, 2012 at 11:49 am

  I can understand “oestrus”, cuz of the funky spelling. But “manumission” surprises me.

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• preston (cap in hand) says:

  May 24, 2012 at 5:53 pm

  And I thought they were all Songs From the Wood, but alas only the first one was.

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• Not David Bordwell says:

  May 24, 2012 at 8:56 pm

  Meiosis as in the production of gametes, or as in another word for “litotes”?

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• Not David Bordwell says:

  May 25, 2012 at 12:45 am

  Hear all ye Angels, Progeny of Light,
  Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Vertues, Powers,
  Hear my Decree, which unrevok’t shall stand.
  This day I have begot whom I declare
  My only Son, and on this holy Hill
  Him have anointed, whom ye now behold
  At my right hand; your Head I him appoint;
  And by my Self have sworn to him shall bow
  All knees in Heav’n, and shall confess him Lord:
  Under his great Vice-gerent Reign abide
  United as one individual Soule
  For ever happy: him who disobeys
  Mee disobeyes, breaks union, and that day
  Cast out from God and blessed vision, falls
  Into utter darkness.
  John Milton, Paradise Lost Book V, ll. 600ff.
  That’s actually Vice-gerent, NOT Vice-regent. Obscure!

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