infinite list of unknown words
so this time thru infinit jest,
i've been keeping in the back a list of words which i don't know but think i should. This is different than just words i don't know, note.
For example, antipyretic or anxiolytic (p. 984) are words i don't know, but i don't really feel like it's my business to know them. but fulvous and erumpant and cathected (p.'s 93, 155, 654) are different stories. i feel like i Should know those words.
So. What follows is the list.
To forestall a possible slew of dictionary.com links,
if you feel like enlightening me on any of these words,
by all means do, excpt that i'm not really interested in what d.com has to say, or wikipedia or any other online source. what i really value in learning the definition of a word is hearsay. first-hand accounts, so to speak. and plus as my friend jennifer informed me, dictionaries are not always right.
(i've gone ahead and linked each one to google images tho)
note a few of these are words i "know" but he used them in ways unfamiliar to me.
also at the bottom is a small list of other lists of unknown words from IJ.
so.
the Infinite Jest list of words from i don't know but should,
in order of discovery:
(i don't know why there's this big gap here)
1. "Director of Composition: 'I made in my assessment [of a paper] deliberate use of lapidary and effete.'"
2. ".. because it was in fact not Mario's real eyelid - that had been sacrificed when [his] fist stuck to his face like a tongue to cold metal had been peeled away, at nativity - but...".
it must somehow mean birth.
3. "A certain number of hysterical pre-competition rumors about the Québec Jr. Team and the severity of the weather circulated and were refuted and shifted antigens and returned."
Other people's lists of unknown words:
http://anchorpoint.blogs.com/amythoughts/2005/08/infinite_jest_v_1.html
http://illquill.blogspot.com/2004/08/fun-with-faux-words.html
Oh look, an index to the whole book - how handy!
http://slacker.com/~cco/members.aol.com/russillosm/ijndx.html
i've been keeping in the back a list of words which i don't know but think i should. This is different than just words i don't know, note.
For example, antipyretic or anxiolytic (p. 984) are words i don't know, but i don't really feel like it's my business to know them. but fulvous and erumpant and cathected (p.'s 93, 155, 654) are different stories. i feel like i Should know those words.
So. What follows is the list.
To forestall a possible slew of dictionary.com links,
if you feel like enlightening me on any of these words,
by all means do, excpt that i'm not really interested in what d.com has to say, or wikipedia or any other online source. what i really value in learning the definition of a word is hearsay. first-hand accounts, so to speak. and plus as my friend jennifer informed me, dictionaries are not always right.
(i've gone ahead and linked each one to google images tho)
note a few of these are words i "know" but he used them in ways unfamiliar to me.
also at the bottom is a small list of other lists of unknown words from IJ.
so.
the Infinite Jest list of words from i don't know but should,
in order of discovery:
(i don't know why there's this big gap here)
1. "Director of Composition: 'I made in my assessment [of a paper] deliberate use of lapidary and effete.'"
2. ".. because it was in fact not Mario's real eyelid - that had been sacrificed when [his] fist stuck to his face like a tongue to cold metal had been peeled away, at nativity - but...".
it must somehow mean birth.
3. "A certain number of hysterical pre-competition rumors about the Québec Jr. Team and the severity of the weather circulated and were refuted and shifted antigens and returned."
Other people's lists of unknown words:
http://anchorpoint.blogs.com/amythoughts/2005/08/infinite_jest_v_1.html
http://illquill.blogspot.com/2004/08/fun-with-faux-words.html
Oh look, an index to the whole book - how handy!
http://slacker.com/~cco/members.aol.com/russillosm/ijndx.html
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