Two Encyclopedias, Fat and Thin

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Dave Monroe sez:
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Calasso, Roberto.  The Forty-nine Steps.
   Trans. by John Shepley.  Mpls: U of Minn P, 2001.

http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/C/calasso_forty-nine.html

So, in looking that one up, found this:

http://isola-di-rifiuti.blogspot.com/2006_11_01_isola-di-rifiuti_archive.html

which included this quote from Against the Day:

"The sun came up a baleful smear in the sky, not 
quite shapeless, in fact able to assume the appearance 
of a device immediately recognizable yet unnamable, 
so widely familiar that the inability to name it passed 
from simple frustration to a felt dread, whose intricacy 
deepened almost moment to moment . . . its name a 
word of power, not to be spoken aloud, not even 
to be remembered in silence."

Interesting posting, that one. . . .