23. read something by David Foster Wallace (32x32)

I'm working up to Infinite Jest with the short stories of David Foster Wallace in Consider the Lobster. The first short story, "Big Red Son," Wallace's account of his visit to the AVN Awards, an event that has been dubbed the Academy Awards of pornographic film, and its associated Expo (originally published in Premiere as "Neither Adult Nor Entertainment" under the pseudonyms Willem R. deGroot and Matt Rundlet).

Am in love with his writing style. Also, heart the number of words I had to look up...

Plangently - having a loud reverberating sound
Synecdoche - a figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole (as fifty sail for fifty ships), the whole for a part (as society for high society), the species for the genus (as cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (as a creature for a man), or the name of the material for the thing made (as boards for stage)
Clerestories - an outside wall of a room or building that rises above an adjoining roof and contains windows
Vertiginous - inclined to frequent and often pointless change
Chicane - to use chicanery: a wretch he had taught to lie and chicane — George Meredith
Berm - a narrow shelf, path, or ledge typically at the top or bottom of a slope; also : a mound or wall of earth or sand: a landscaped berm
Fissile - capable of being split or divided in the direction of the grain or along natural planes of cleavage
Rube - an awkward unsophisticated person
Cerise - French, literally, cherry, from Late Latin ceresia
Klieg-glare - [not in the dictionary] google challenge: "three excitation modes David Hurst (after Ted Berrigan) i[sic] they can't admit in the penetrating klieg glare of television lights their natural urge to suckle"
Coterie - an intimate and often exclusive group of persons with a unifying common interest or purpose
Spiriferously - [also not in the dictionary, however I am not the first to google challenge] - Having a spiral structure or spiral parts
Leptosomatic - n., Leptosome, a person with a small bodily frame and a slender physique
Anuresis - retention of urine in the urinary bladder : failure or inability to void urine
Porkpie - A pork pie hat (a.k.a. porkpie) is a type of hat made of felt or straw. It is a type of fedora which has a cylindrical crown and flat top. This style of crown is called a "telescopic crown", but the hat overall resembles the boater hat. It is short (usually 3" to 4" in height) and has an indentation all the way around its top, allowing it to pop upward slightly when worn. Furthermore, as stated in a newspaper clipping from the mid-1930's: "The true pork pie hat is so made that it cannot be worn successfully except when telescoped." The same clipping refers to the hat also as "the bi crowned" [sic].

Distaff - As a noun, a distaff ( /ˈdɪstɑːf/, also called a rock[1]) is a tool used in spinning. It is designed to hold the unspun fibers, keeping them untangled and thus easing the spinning process. It is most commonly used to hold flax, and sometimes wool, but can be used for any type of fiber. Fiber is wrapped around the distaff, and tied in place with a piece of ribbon or string. The word comes from dis in Low German, meaning a bunch of flax, connected with staff. As an adjective the term distaff is used to describe the female side of a family.