Tuesday, January 06, 2015

word of the day: gelignite

The word of the day is gelignite:
 


"'"Censored" is a strong word,' the librarian said.
"'Yes.  It's the correct word,' Brand remarked.  ''Cause there's a lot of scatological and puerile language.  "Scatological" means "of the body." So muck, snot, poo, that kind of stuff.  But I like to use those kinds of ideas as gelignite to detonate new territories for thought.  What about that?  "Gelignite": an explosive thing.  "Detonate": the process of explosion.'"

 - Michael Schulman, "Follow the leader", 15 December 2014 The New Yorker

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