VLVL2 (9.5): "Thanatoid"

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

* Dead-only-different also appear the Post-Civil-War-Southerners
in Faulkner's "Absalom, Absalom!" [1936] -- KFL +


Dave Monroe schrieb:

>    "'What's a Thanatoid.  OK, it's actually short for
> 'Thanatoid personality.'  'Thanatoid' means 'like
> death, only different.'
>    "'Do you understand this?' Takeshi asked DL.
>    "'Near as I can tell, they all live together, in
> Thanatoid apratment buildings, or Thanatoid houses in
> Thanatoid villages....'" (VL, Ch. 9, p. 170)
> 
 
> thanatoid (than·a·toid) (than¢[schwa]-toid) [thanato-
> + -oid]  resembling death.
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