
Well, to start this new blog, I list below my 'coinages' over the years; perhaps anyone out there can tell me what to elaborate on from this list - or something brand new?
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'zeroism, egnisomicon, egnisism' in conjunction with PF Jeffery (1967), 'whofage' in conjunction with PF Jeffery (1973), 'agra aska' (1984), 'weirdmonger' (1988), use of 'brainwright' in modern times (1990), use of 'yesterfang' in modern times (1997), 'wordhunger' (1999), 'nemonymous, 'nemonymity', late-labelling, veils-&-piques' (2001), 'denemonise' (2002), 'megazanthus', 'weirdonymous', 'chasing the noumenon' (2003), 'wordonymous', 'wordominous', 'the-ominous-imagination', Revelling in Vulnerability (2004), 'a woven fire-wall of words', 'nemoguity', 'vexed texture of text', 'fictipathy', 'nemotion', 'the hawler', 'the angel megazanthus', 'klaxon city', 'horrorism' when used as a word for the philosophy of horror fiction (2005), 'publication-on-reading', 'antipodal angst', 'the tenacity of feathers', 'a writer's mandala', 'wordy weird', 'nemophilia / nemophobia', 'magic fiction' as the obverse of the more common expression 'magic realism', 'weirdtongue' as the 'name' of a language, 'Glistenberry' as an alternative name for 'Glastonbury', 'tonguage' as a 'conscious' language, 'yester-eggs' as a term for Proustian 'selves', 'the parthenogenesis of reality from artifice', 'all is for the pest in the pest of all worlds', 'Baffles' as fables with muffled morals (2006), 'abutting the if', 'word clones / word clowns', 'bumps for books', 'rite of review', 'cone zero', 'a basket of coinages' (2007).
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Three of them: three other children. Down there in the pit, that bucket of dusk, she had not counted them – on the flit, they had been innumerable. They had answered from all over the place. They had cast looks rather than shown faces.
From Part III (7) of 'The Little Girls' (1964) by Elizabeth Bowen
I am now up to the 69th (!) posting on the Elizabeth Bowen blog giving my favourite quote from each story and from each novel chapter:
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The 'basket' is updated at the link above.