Words of mass confusion, or the dictionary as best friend
Casey warned me that Chabon was a wordy bugger, not that I mind much. I’d rather he wrote with himself in mind than dumbing it down for people like little old me. Anyway, my dictionary is being constantly flipped through right now.
A sampling of words that have got me twisted up in the first few chapters:
Omniveillant, Reichsprotektorat, ausbrecher, penury, cathected, tageblatt, crepuscular, rastel.
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