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  • ...ntioned almost nowhere (and not in the target of the link). This is one of DFW's most obscure references. Possibly leptospirosis, also known as Fort Bragg
    24 KB (3,566 words) - 03:59, 17 September 2020
  • ...magazine used it in a blurb in 1996. I suspect that they were inspired by DFW. ?? Spin does provide one of the reviews in the front of the 2006 edition : When DFW describes his teenage years in ''Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley'', he me
    20 KB (3,035 words) - 17:36, 2 June 2022
  • ...en link that I don't think had any relation to the magazine, presumably of DFW's invention. --> ...p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycine amino acids] found in proteins; however, DFW probably meant to say 'glassine bags'
    34 KB (5,196 words) - 20:13, 26 September 2020
  • a DFW neologism (possibly egregious(outstandingly bad or shocking) + ridiculous o
    24 KB (3,701 words) - 01:50, 2 May 2020
  • ...uclear dome on Runit Island], now in the Marshall Islands. No idea whether DFW was aware of this.
    2 KB (344 words) - 13:36, 22 May 2020
  • ...he synthesis of some polymers but is most emphatically not pimple cream as DFW claims. I suspect it would burn your skin off." Although, Olympia continu
    142 KB (19,334 words) - 01:45, 11 July 2017

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