Well I just reread Vineland and the news is still bad...

[David Morris]

These values are not ones I would use to judge the "superiority" of a novel.

On 6/15/07, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
> In terms of the difficulty of the diction, it is definitely 'superior', at least to me. GR is tough, of course, what with ctenophile, scumble, berm, flume, cullet, callipygean etc.
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> But M&D is really vicious in this respect: butter-bag, remontoire, chaunt, pass-bank, cilial, tagareen man, huddock, keel-bully, staitheman, mombly, etesian, nidor, droster, loblolly, mathesis, buzz-man, glaur, to name but a few.
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