Nerve gas, Weapon of chemical warfare that affects the transmission of nerve impulses through the nervous system.
According to Ryan Compton's Infinite Jest by the Numbers, Wallace used a vocabulary of 20,584 unique words to write the 577,608-word Infinite Jest. 10. 11. n+1 has a neat story about where the name for Michael Pemulis, Hal's drug-dealing friend at Enfield Tennis Academy, came from.
Mollyâs soliloquy is a touchstone for writers aiming to go long. A copy of âUlyssesâ pops up in âGreen Coaster,â the 33-page, single-sentence section that closes Jonathan Coeâs brilliant novel âThe Rottersâ Clubâ (2001). (The BBC has reported that at 13,955 words, it is the longest sentence ever written in English.). Joyce also makes a cameo in the most recent candidate for the absurdly exclusive Book-as-Sentence club, the French novelist Mathias ÃnardâÃ©nard âSâ (zone), 2008 just published in An english. translation