Welcome to Nick�s
Unlikely Glossary Project
This is obviously a work very very much in progress. Ultimately, what I want is a sort of index to my total cultural literacy; that is, everything anyone would need in order to understand all the nonsense I spew.
Of course, this has a quixoticism rating of �monstrous.�
Currently there are, I believe, between 500 and 600 entries here; I have not yet begun to attempt to define entries; I�m more at the categorizing and cross-referencing stage, and not very far into that, to be honest.
New entries always welcome. Contribute here.
Basic Values:
Divine, Very Good, Good, Eh, Bad, Very Bad, Evil. Values do not apply to real people.
Categories
Actor, Books, Cartoons, Character, Concept, Discipline, En-titties, Imagined organization, Imagined World, Institutions, Movies, Philosophy, Philosophy: Metaphysics, Philosophy: Methods and Schools, Place, Real, Religion, Television, Television: Cancelled, Writers.
Works: Works by or containing or about the item.
Bibliography: Works favored by or important for understanding the item.
Connectives: Cross-referenes
Links: Pertinent URLS
Value: Divine
Category: Writers
Description:
Works: Sports Night, West Wing
Connectives:
Links:
http://westwing.bewarne.com http://www.angelfire.com/me4/emily6/westwingtranscripts.html
Category: Character
Description:
Quotes:
Works: Arm of the Starfish, A Ring of Endless Light
Connectives: Madeline L�Engle, Polyhymnia O�Keefe, Canon Tallis
Links:
Affices
Value: Very Good
Description:
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Category: Real
Description:
Works:
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Value: Very Good
Category: Writers
Description: Underappreciated (except by the overly hip) sci-fi writer, c. 1970�s. His works focus on the social and personal implications of the superhuman�immortals, telepaths, teleporters, and synergists�much as Phillip K Dick�s work focuses on the inhuman.
Works: The Demolished Man, The Stars My Destination, The Computer Connection, Pyschoshop (finished by Zelazny), The Deceivers
Connectives: Science Fiction
Links:
Value: Very Good
Category: Philosophy
Description:
Quotes:
Works: The Aims of Education and Other Essays
Connectives:
Links:
Value: Very Good
Category: Television
Description:
Quotes:
Works:
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Alien (non-human)
Value: N/A
Category: Concept
Description:
Quotes:
Works: The Dreaming Jewels,
Connectives: Science Fiction, Four Foci of Science Fiction
Links:
Value: Good
Category: Imagined Worlds
Description: Zelazny�s fantasy multiverse�
Works:
Connectives: Fantasy
Links:
Value: Divine
Category:
Description:
Quotes:
Works: The Widget, The Wadget, and Boff
Connectives:
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Category: Real
Description: Czech, Ukranian, Russian, Lithuanian�in any event, freakishly tall and can�t possibly have been born in this country. Cartographophiliac. (In the sexual sense). Prolific coper of neolojisms.
Works:
Bibliography: Thurber�s 13 Clocks, Gonick�s Cartoon History of the World (for annotative potential alone),
Connectives: Sanskrit, Linguistics,
Links: http://livejournal.com/users/wackyslav
Value: Very Good
Category: Philosophy: Methods and Schools
Description:
Quotes:
Works: Nietzsche�s Beyond Good and Evil, Quine�s �Two Dogmas of Empiricism,� James�s Pragmatism, Dewey�s Experience and Nature.
Connectives: Pragmatism
Links:
Value: Evil
Category: Philosophy: Metaphysics
Description:
Quotes:
Works: Shankara,
Connectives:
Links:
Value: Very Good
Category: Place
Description: Berkeley, CA, not the bishop.
Works:
Connectives: Oakland
Links:
Value: Very Good
Category: Books
Author: Nietzsche
Description: A collection of cryptic but insightful aphoristic passages which constitute one of the most effective attacks on foundational philosophy. Also cluttered with proto-fascist nonsense.
Connectives:
Links:
Value: Very Good
Category: Character
Description:
Quotes:
Works: Herbert�s �The Tactful Saboteur� and �Whipping Star,� both in the Consentiency universe.
Connectives: Good Bureaucracy
Links:
Value: Sketchy
Category: Character
Description: Rock star, evangelist, communist, neocon fascist, perennial independent presidential candidate. Cat.
Works:
Connectives: Bloom County
Links:
Value: Divine
Category: Cartoon
Description:
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Value: Evil
Category: Character
Description:
Quotes:
Works: Clone High
Connectives:
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Brimstone
Value: Good
Category: Television: Cancelled
Description: Time to pay the devil his due.
Connectives:
Links:
Value: Good?
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Description:
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Brown Watchclock Appreciation, Heisting, and Hording Association
Value: Divine
Category: Organization
Description:
Quotes:
Works:
Connectives: Watchclock Stations
Links:
Value: Outrageous
Category: Actor
Description:
Quotes:
Works: Army of Darkness, Bubba Ho-tep
Connectives:
Links:
Value: Very Good
Category: Movies
Description:
Quotes:
Works:
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Value: Very Good
Category: Religion
Description:
Quotes:
Works: Mulamadhyamakakarika, Tripitika, Lin-chi�s Lin-chi lu, Dogen�s Shobogenzo.
Connectives:
Links:
Value: Divine
Category: Imagined Organizations
Description:
Quotes:
Works: �The Tactful Saboteur,� Whipping Star, The Dosadi Experiment.
Connectives: Good Bureaucracy, Consentiency
Links:
Calvin and Hobbes
Value: Divine
Category: Cartoon
Description:
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Value: Very Good
Category: Character
Description:
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Canon Tallis
Value: Very
Good
Category: Character
Description:
Quotes:
Works: Arm of the Starfish, Dragons in
the Waters
Connectives:
Links:
Value: N/A
Category: Philosophy: Metaphysics
Description:
Quotes:
Works: Mulamadhyamakakarika
Connectives:
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Charles Render
Value: Very Good
Category: Character
Description:
Quotes:
Works: Dream Master
Connectives:
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Value: ?
Category: Writers
Description:
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Charles Wallace Murray
Value: Very Good
Category: Character
Description:
Quotes:
Works: A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door
Connectives: Madeline L�Engle, Fantasy
Links:
Value: Good
Category: Television
Description:
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Value: Divine
Category: Food
Description:
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Category: Real
Description:
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Value: Divine
Category:
Description:
Quotes:
Works: The Chuang-tzu
Links:
Classroom
Value: Eh
Category: Institutions
Description:
Quotes:
Works: Horace�s Compromise
Connectives:
Links:
Value: Hi-laring-fuckious
Category:
Description:
Quotes:
Works: Inca Gold, Sahara,
Connectives:
Links:
Clock
Category: Imagined World (minen)
Description:
Quotes:
Works: �Around the Clock,� �The Throne of Morning,� �The Reminiscent Bells�
Connectives:
Links: http://www.geocities.com/kukkurovaca/aroundtheclock.htm
Clone High
Value: Divine
Category: Television: Cancelled
Description:
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Works:
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Value: N/A
Category: Concept
Description:
Quotes:
Works: Experience and Nature,
Connectives:
Links:
Community
Value: N/A
Category: Concept
Description:
Quotes:
Works: Democracy and Education, The Human Condition,
Connectives:
Links:
Value: Divine
Category: Imagined Organization
Description:
Quotes:
Works: �The Tactful
Saboteur,� Whipping Star, The Dosadi Experience
Connectives:
Links:
Value: Very Good
Category: Character
Description:
Quotes:
Works: Red Harvest�
Connectives:
Links:
Cristina Garcia
Value: Very Good
Category: Writer
Description:
Quotes:
Works: Dreaming in Cuban,
The Aguero Sisters
Connectives:
Links:
Category: Real
Description
Works:
Bibliography: The Hitchhiker�s Guide to the Galaxy, et al.,
Connectives:
Links:
Value: Divine
Category: Writer
Description:
Quotes:
Works: The Maltese Falcon, Red Harvest, The Thin Man
Connectives:
Links:
Death
Value: N/A
Category: Concept
Description:
Quotes:
Works:
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See Alfred Bester
Value: Evil
Category: Philosophy: Metaphysics
Description:
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Value: Very Good
Category: Entities
Description:
Quotes:
Works:
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
See Phillip Dick
Value: Very Good
Category: Writer
Description:
Quotes:
Works: Shobogenzo
Connectives:
Links:
Value: Divine
Category: Books
Description:
Connectives: Science Fiction, Roger Zelazny
Links:
Value: Good
Category: Books
Description:
Quotes:
Works:
Connectives: Whipping Star, The Consentiency
Links:
Value: Very Good
Category: Books
Description:
Quotes:
Works:
Connectives:
Links:
Value: Very Good
Category: Books
Description:
Quotes:
Author: Frank Herbert
Connectives:
Links:
Earthsea
Value: Divine
Category: Books
Description:
Quotes:
Author: Ursula Leguin
Connectives:
Links:
Education
Value: N/A
Category: Discpline
Description:
Quotes:
Works: Democracy and Education, Emile, The Republic,
Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Schooling and the struggle for public life
Connectives:
Links:
Elvis Cole
Value: Good
Category: Character
Description:
Quotes:
Works: The Monkey�s Raincoat, Stalking the Angel�
Connectives:
Links:
See Sunyata
Value: N/A
Category: Religion
Description:
Quotes:
Works:
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Espers, Esper Guild
See Alfred Bester, Good Bureaucracy
Everwood
Category: Television
Description:
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Evil
Category: Philosophy, Religion
Description:
Quotes:
Works:
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Extreme Blu
Category: Imagined Food Product
Description:
Quotes:
Works: Clone High: Episode Two: Election Blu-Galoo
Connectives:
Links:
Fantasy
Value: N/A
Category: Genre
Description:
Quotes:
Works:
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Links:
Fear and Trembling
Category: Books
Description:
Author: Kierkegaard
Connectives:
Links:
Ferron
Category: Lesbian Folk Icon
Description:
Quotes:
Works: Not a Still Life
Connectives:
Links:
Fiction
Category: Genre
Description:
Quotes:
Works:
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Value: Divine
Category: Video Game
Description:
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Works:
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Fountain Pens
Category: Indispensable Condition of Human Existence
Description:
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Four Foci of Science of Fiction
Category: Concept
Description:
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Frank Herbert
Category: Writer
Description:
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G vs E
Value: Very Good
Category: Television
Description:
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Category: Procedure
Description: In the famed �Gary Oldman Shot,� the actor, typically Mr. Oldman, faces just to the left of the camera, with his face between 1/2 and 2/3 in the screen.
Works:
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Gaston Bachelard
Category: Writers
Description:
Quotes:
Works: Poetics of Reverie, Psychoanalysis of Fire
Connectives:
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Ged
Category: Character
Description:
Quotes:
Works: The Earthsea books.
Connectives:
Links:
George Washington Carver
Category: Character
Description:
Quotes:
Works:
Connectives: Clone High
Links:
Giant Squid
Category: Entity
Description:
Quotes:
Works:
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Golux
Category: Character
Description:
Quotes:
Works: The Thirteen Clocks
Connectives:
Links:
Good Bureaucracy
Category: Concept
Description:
Quotes:
Works: Whipping
Star, Demolished Man, Dune, Dragon in the Deep,
Connectives:
Links:
Good, Virtue
Value: N/A
Category: Philosophy, Religion
Description:
Quotes:
Works: Experience and Nature,
Connectives:
Links:
Gravity and Grace
Category: Books
Description:
Author: Simone Weil
Connectives:
Links:
Hannah Arendt
Category: Writers
Description:
Quotes:
Works: Beyond Good and Evil, Eichmann in Jerusalem, The Human Condition
Connectives:
Links:
Hawk
Category: Character
Description:
Quotes:
Works:
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Value: Good
Category: Writers
Description:
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Works:
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He Who Shapes
See Dream Master
Heaven
Category: Religion
Description:
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Hell
Category: Religion
Description:
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Works:
Connectives:
Links:
Hour-Long Syndicated Action Series, Austrialio-
Canadian and Otherwise
Category: Television
Description:
Quotes:
Works: Relic
Hunter, The Lost World, Mutant X, She-Spies,
Connectives:
Links:
Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Category: Writers
Description:
Quotes:
Works:
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Human
Category: Concept
Description:
Quotes:
Works: The Human Condition, Democracy and Education
Connectives: See also, Four Foci of Science Fiction
Links:
Imagination
Value: Divine
Category: Concept
Description:
Quotes:
Works: Poetics of Reverie, �Black to the Future�
Connectives:
Links:
Inhuman
Category: Concept
Description:
Quotes:
Works:
Connectives: Four Foci of Science Fiction
Links:
Insomnia
Value: Eh
Category: Affliction, Skill
Description:
Quotes:
Works:
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Jack of Shadows
Category:
Description:
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Works:
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Category: Writers
Description:
Quotes:
Works: Emile
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Jherzerpine
Description:
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Works:
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Joan of Arc
Category: Character
Description:
Quotes:
Works:
Connectives: Clone High
Links:
Joe Pike
Category: Character
Description:
Quotes:
Works: see Elvis Cole
Connectives:
Links:
John Dewey
Category: Writers
Description:
Quotes:
Works: Experience and Nature, Democracy and Education, A Common Faith, [FILL Articles]
Connectives:
Links:
Jorge Luis Borges
Category: Writers
Description:
Quotes:
Works: Labyrinths
Connectives:
Links:
Jorj X Mckie
Category: Character
Description:
Quotes:
Works: Whipping Star, The Dosadi Experiment, �The Tactful Saboteaur�
Connectives:
Links:
Joseph Campbell
Category: Writers
Description:
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Works:
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Kaleideion
Category:
Description:
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Works:
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Karl Jaspers
Category: Writers
Description:
Quotes:
Works: Philosophy, Philosophy of Existence
Connectives:
Links:
Karma
Category: Philosophy, Religion
Description:
Quotes:
Works:
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Links:
Kay Boyle
Category: Writers
Description:
Quotes:
Works: The Crazy Hunter, Life Being the Best and Other Stories
Connectives:
Links:
Kazakhstan
Value: N/A
Category: In-Joke
Description:
Quotes:
Works:
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Kelly
Or �Dwarfie:
Definition: That short but adorable girl from
Nicks acting days.
Cross-references? :
NCTC, San Francisco, Fentons
Kevin
Description:
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Kierkegaard
Category: Writers
Description:
Quotes:
Works: Fear and
Trembling, Works of Love, The Seducer�s Diary
Connectives:
Links:
Killdozer
Kurt Vonnegut
Category: Writers
Description:
Quotes:
Works: Breakfast of
Champions, Welcome to the Monkeyhouse
Connectives:
Links:
Laclac
Category: Imagined Species
Description:
Quotes:
Works: Whipping Star
Connectives:
Links:
Language and Linguistics
Category: Discipline
Description:
Quotes:
Works: Word and Object,
Connectives:
Links:
Lao-tzu
Category: Writers
Description:
Quotes:
Works: Daodejing
Connectives:
Links:
Lawrence Block
Category: Writers
Description:
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Works:
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Lev
Description:
Quotes:
Works:
Bibliography:
Connectives:
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Lin-chi
Category: Writers
Description:
Quotes:
Works: Lin-chi lu
Connectives:
Links:
Linguistic Particles
Category: In-Joke
Description:
Quotes:
Works:
Connectives:
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Logical Fallacies
Value: Good
Category: In-Joke
Description: �Nobody doesn�t like Sara Lee.� �I don�t.� �Therefore, you don�t exist.�
Quotes:
Works:
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Love
Category: Concept
Description:
Quotes:
Works: Gravity and Grace, Works of Love,
Connectives:
Links:
Loyalty
Category: Concept
Description:
Quotes:
Works:
Connectives:
Links:
Lucien Lucius Nunn
Category: Historical Figure
Description:
Quotes: �He was looking for rough young men with a deep humanistic education.�
Works:
Connectives:
Links:
Madeline L�Engle
Category: Writers
Description:
Quotes:
Works: A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, Arm
of the Starfish, Dragons in the Water
Connectives:
Links:
Matt
Description:
Quotes:
Works:
Bibliography: Lovecraft, Foucault�s
Pendulum
Connectives:
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Maggie
Category: Real
Description:
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Works:
Bibliography:
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Meditation
Category: Religion
Description:
Quotes:
Works:
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Meg Murray
Category: Character
Description:
Quotes:
Works: A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door
Connectives:
Links:
Michel Foucault
Category: Writers
Description:
Quotes:
Works: Discipline and Punish, Body/Power,
Connectives:
Links:
Milo Bloom
Category: Character
Description:
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Works:
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Mortality and Immortality
Category: Philosophy, Religion
Description:
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Works:
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Mulamadhyamakakarika
Category: Books
Description:
Quotes:
Author: Nagarjuna
Connectives:
Links:
Mysticism
Category: Religion, Concept, Discipline
Description:
Quotes:
Works: Varieties
of Religious Experience
Connectives:
Links:
Mystico-Pragmatism
Category: Religion, Philosophy
Description:
Quotes:
Works: Varieties of
Religious Experience, Lectures on Philosophy
Connectives: William James, Simone Weil, John Dewey
Links:
Nagarjuna
Category: Writers
Description:
Quotes:
Works: Mulamadhyamakakarika
Connectives:
Links:
Naming Nick�s Kids
Category: In-Joke
Description:
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Works:
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Need for Roots, The
Value: Divine
Category: Philosophy, Religion
Description:
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Author:
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Category: Procedure
Description:
More commonly spelt �neologism,� a neolojism is any word of recent formation. A word qualifies as a neolojism if (1) it is not a recorded element of the language, or (2) if, while recorded one or more lexicons, it lacks a historical etymology. Neolojisms are typically formed on the model of existing words, especially by using existing affices in accord with their etymological meanings. Sometimes these affices are misused, or false affices generated. For example, �prequel� is formed on the model of �sequel,� leading to the suspect generation of the prefix �se� and the stem �quell,� along with the implication of such terms as �postquel� and �inquel.� While neologisms are coined, neolojisms are coped.
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New Wave Sci-Fi
Category: Books
Description:
Quotes:
Authors: Zelazny, Ellison,
Connectives:
Links:
Quel
See Neolojisms
See Neolojisms
See Neolojisms
See Neolojisms
See Neolojisms
Nick
Description:
Quotes:
Works:
Bibliography:
Simone Weil
Gravity
and Grace
The
Need for Roots
Lectures
on Philosophy
William James
Varieties
of Religious Experience
Pragmatism
�The Sentiment of Rationality�
�The Will to Believe�
�Is Life Worth Living�
�The Energies of Men�
Nagarjuna
John Dewey
Experience
and Nature
Democracy
and Education
A
Common Faith
[FILL]
Hannah Arendt
Eichmann
in Jerusalem
Between
Past and Future
The
Human Condition
Franz Fanon
Black
Skin, White Masks
Wretched
of the Earth
Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond
Good and Evil
Cornel West
The
American Evasion of Philosophy
Louis Menand
The
Metaphysical Club
Willard Van Orman Quine
Quiddities
�Two Dogmas of Empiricism�
Jonathan Lethem
Amnesia
Moon
As
She Crawled Across the Table
Motherless
Brooklyn
Gun
with Occasional Music
Theodore Sturgeon
Thunder
and Roses
Caviar
More
than Human
The
Dreaming Jedwels
Roger Zelazny
Dream
Master
Doorways
in the Sand
Today
We Choose Faces
Roadmarks
The
Isle of the Dead
The
Doors of his Face, the Lamps of his Mouth
A
Night in the Lonesome October
Shadowjack
Frank Herbert
Whipping
Star
The
Dosadi Experiment
�The Tactful Saboteur�
Dune
Dragon
in the Deep
Eye
Alfred Bester
The
Demolished Man
The
Deceivers
Psychoshop
Jorge Luis Borges
Labyrinths
Cristina Garcia
Sherman Alexie
Kurt Vonnegut
Connectives:
Links:
Nick and Nora Charles
Category: Character
Description:
Quotes:
Works: The Thin Man
Connectives:
Links:
Nothingness
Category: Philosophy: Metaphysics
Description:
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Works:
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Oakland
Value: Good
Category: Place
Description:
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Octopodes
The correct plural of �octopus�
Opus
Category: Character
Description:
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Origen
Category: Writers
Description:
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Otherness, The Other
Category: Concept
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Pan Spechi
Category: Imagined Species
Description:
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Pembroke Hall
Value: Very Good
Category: Place
Description: �This is a library, you know.�
Works:
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Value: Very Good
Category: Writers
Description:
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Value: Good
Category: Writers
Description:
Quotes:
Works: Riverworld, The Wind Whales of Ishmael
Connectives:
Links:
Category: Character
Description:
Quotes:
Works: Arm of the Starfish, Dragons in
the Waters
Connectives:
Links:
Postmodernism
Category: Philosophy: Methods and Schools
Description:
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Works:
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poststructuralism
pragmatism
princess bride, the
providence
psychoshop
Reincarnation
religion
religiosity
religious pragmatism
renee
rhode island
richard hittleman
Richard Rorty
robert b parker
robert bakker
robert crais
rosie
sam spade
sanskrit
Scharf
scholarly rigor
school
Science Fiction
science fiction
secularity
shadowjack
Shankara
she-spies
simone weil
slavoj zizek
slow sculpture
speech
speicus
telluride association
The Accoutremints of Modern Living
The Sad Shall Inherit the Earth
Time-Spikes and Drags
Category: Books
Category: Indispensable Condition of Human Existence
Description:
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Category: Concept
Category: Imagined Organization
Category: Imagined World
Category: Imagined Food Product
Category: Indispensable Conditions of Human Existence
Category: Institutions
Category: Movies
Category: Philosophy: Metaphysics
Category: Philosophy: Methods and Schools
Category: Real
Category: Television
Category: Television: Cancelled