As I've been reading A.H.W.O.S.G. I've been noticing that Dave Eggers' vocabulary is far superior to mine. This could be any of the following reasons.
1. He is a professional writer. I am not.
2. He owns a dictionary and a thesarus. I do not.
3. He was a pulitzer prize finalist. I've never even been in the running.
4. I haven't been in school for over 2 years and I am progressively getting dumber.
(although that will change on Monday...more on that later, I'm sure.)
5. He (apparently) is a "staggering genius". I am "not" a genius.
Anyway, here's the word I learned today.
solipsism:
1. The idea or belief that only the self exists, or can be proved to exist.
2. Extreme preoccupation and indulgence of one's feelings and desires; egoism; self-absorbtion.
Thank you Dave Eggers for teaching me something new today.
3 comments:
Wait, if I already knew that word, does that make me a "genius"?
He's much cuter now than he was on the back of the book.
Staggering.
he is not a staggering genius, but his heartbreaking work is.
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