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.
, Author of A Kill in the Morning (Transworld, 2014) 80,000 - 90,000 words is regarded as the standard length of a commercial novel. Almost all novels are in the range 60,000 to 110,000 words. A first time author would probably be best aiming for around 80,000 words.