Logophilic

07 Jan 09

Definition

logophile (noun) : one who loves words; a word buff

DFW's Sentence "This sort of coy self-reflexive metaverbal text thing just depresses the shit out of me," exeleutherostomizes an incidental character - maybe a bagboy at the PriceChopper or some kind of high-class chef at Marjorie's Mansion or something - who appears now w/o any more reason or reality than the soubrettish cashier or the logophilic protagonist of the earlier sections of the serial exhibition, the nameless guy whose lexical sex scene in (2) is just an excuse for a lo of metalexical riffs and intertextual allusions and whose recursive errand-list in (3) is just an excuse for some arch wordplay and pinchbeck paradox.

My Sentence The logophilic bartender loved the women in ways Marty Mullholland found repulsive yet admirable in its superficial excess, like a Michael Bay movie Marty thought to himself.

01: DFW Source: The Flexicon (p.183)

02: Definition Source: Ninjawords

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