Notes

Slow musings, hurried scribblings.

12-12-2025

Lexicon

New words I come across
12-11-2025

Big Red Son (1998), David Foster Wallace

  1. pantomime
  2. paucity (woeful paucity)
  3. noms de guerre - French for names of war
  4. Rolaids - I'm guessing this is some sort of OTC medication (it's an antacid)
  5. cathedra - bishop's see (seat of authority)
  6. ziggurat
  7. tympanum ("The Harley-Davidson cafe, with its tympanum of huge protruding hawg)
  8. hawg
  9. synecdoche ("Vegas' synecdoche)
  10. mal ("grand mal sync")
  11. contusion
  12. agoraphobia - fear of places that cause panic
  13. vertiginous - fancy way of saying tall
  14. cheval
  15. chicane
12-18-2025
  1. dilettante - person who dabbles without commitment
12-19-2025
  1. reticient