Possible spoil: what's in a word?

[MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu]

On the subject of words--

In my opinion, Terry C.'s astute comment points to more than a mere (well, not really 
mere) indulgence in inventing words.  I too have noticed these wonderfully bizarre words 
occurrinbg with some frequency.  Almost always, the puzzle they present is, is this some 
archaism or a neologism?  He seems to be finding ways for past and future to coexist 
within the same word, an emerging theme of the novel (is that a d-uh, gang?).  Only at 
page 150 so far, and I am a tremble at the delights still in store.

john m
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Thomas V. writes:
>It seems to me that this is another example of TRP's evident indulgence in 
>inventing words as we have seen so many times before.

Terry C. wrote:
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 IS there such a word? WAS there? My OED gives "caffiaceous,"
>once, long ago. Or is this a significant question, part of Pynchon's evident
>pleasure in composing an eighteen-century style being to confound the differ-
>ence between antique usages and wholly original ones?
>