Sunday, August 17, 2008

Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim

Dixon liked and revered him for his air of detesting everything that presented itself to his senses, and of not meaning to let this detestation become staled by custom. (34)

The one indispensible answer to an environment bristling with people and things one thought were bad was to go on finding out new ways in which one could think they were bad. (129)

Words
Fulsome
Florid
Temporize
Vole
Vertiginous
Objurgatory
Plangency
Invigilate

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