reading The Crying of Lot 49 and it’s funny. I’ll have to read it twice though, because it’s all inny and outy and turned around. Lucky for me it’s short. I’ve started to wonder in the guy’s motives when he was naming his characters: Oedipa Maas, Mike Fallopian, Stanly Koteks, Dr. Hilarius, Genghis Cohen etc. Hrm…
I’ve found a couple of good words in it so far:
Hierophant: [n][L. hierophanta, hierophantes, Gr. “ierofa`nths; “iero`s sacred + fai`nein to show, make known: cf. F. hi[‘e]rophante.] The presiding priest who initiated candidates at the Eleusinian mysteries; hence, one who teaches the mysteries and duties of religion. –Abp Potter
ogive: [n] front consisting of the conical head of a missile or rocket that protects the payload from heat during its passage through the atmosphere [syn: nose cone]
tegument: [n] 1. a natural protective covering of the body; site of the sense of touch [syn: skin, cutis] 2. A cover or covering; an integument
Vizard: [n] [See Visor.] A mask; a visor. [Archaic]
grue: from archaic English verb for ‘shudder’, as with fear
philatelist: [n] a collector and student of postage stamps [syn: stamp collector]
entropy: [n] 1: (thermodynamics) a measure of the amount of energy in a system that is available for doing work; entropy increases as matter and energy in the universe degrade to an ultimate state of inert uniformity [ant: ectropy] 2: (communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome; “the signal contained thousands of bits of information” [syn: information, selective information]
~ Listening to: Frontline Assembly – Justify My Love (cover)