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This book didn't grab me straight away -- it isn't like contemporary novels aimed at a wide popular audience, where the first sentence is a hook, or the author begins in the middle of an action scene to get the reader caught up. Disch doesn't show his hand, or even his prose, right away. But once he has lulled you into complacency and snuck up on you, oh man. Great writing.
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nystigmatic: subject to involuntary eye movement.
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Here is a helpful list of a few words you may not use every day:
nystigmatic: subject to involuntary eye movement.
tappet: a ...more
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