Word List From Beckett's Molloy 5-10-2015

[ I am back working through my prison journal. It is out of order… Well, the order is as I have opened boxes. The date in the title is the date it was written. I hope this is not confusing. What you are reading is what you get for your tax dollars. sch 10/25/2025]

Let us see what I can find in Webster's II New Revised University Dictionary of my list culled from Molloy (Grove Press).

...Sometimes to be sure, when I was lucky enough to chance on a road conveniently cambered....

Molloy, I 

The following produced an epiphany of my ignorance:

 ... But to sentiments sweet and simple, to episentiments rather if I may venture to say so. For I knew in advance, which made all presentiment superfluous....

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 Presentiment - a sense of something to occur.

Sentiment: ... 2. An idea, opinion, or attitude based on feeling or emotion rather than reason... 7. A vague awareness or feeling...

So what is an episentiment? Have to wait on the lifting of the lockdown and the unabridged dictionary. Now do you see the scarcity of information in prison?

[I do not see that I ever did follow up on a definition of episentiment after the lockdown was lifted. However, free of prison and its limitations, I have the internet, so I searched for the definitions. This is what I found today. sch 10/25/2025.]

Perforce appears here thanks to a lack of intellectual self-confidence on my part:

... Perhaps, perforce, roots, berries....

Perforce... By necessity....

Like with Kate Chopin's scintillant, Beckett's vociferation caught my eye. My dictionary starts off with the verb form that comes to my mind first.

... And when I saw him disappear, his whole body a vociferation, I was almost sorry. 

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Vociferate... To cry out and utter vehemently, esp. in protest....

Factitious always confuses me.

... It bought me a semblance of pardon and brief moment of factitious freedom....

Factitious: 1. Produced artificially. 2. Lacking genuineness.... 

I cannot find floccillate in my dictionary.

... And when I see my hands, on the sheet, which they already love to floccilate already, they are not mine, I have no hands....

Molloy, I

The closest I have is:

 flocculate... 1. To cause (soil) to form lumps or masses. 2. To cuase (clouds) to form fluffy masses,

[My last example of how prison limits the mind even more than the body. Google leads me to the following:

Floccillation: noun Pathology. a delirious picking of the bedclothes by the patient, as in certain fevers.

 sch 10/25/2025.] 

Now it is 1:35 pm. Dinner in 4 hours. I can finish off my cookies. Read on into Sophocles's Antigone. Will need to brush my teeth soon. Listening to 88.9's roots rock show. Could do some letters. This is life in prison. What did you expect me to do?

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[This post also illustrates the problems of taking my journals out of order. One thing that I realized earlier in my prison career was I could not remember definitions of words. I certainly could not recall the dictionary definitions. I started compiling lists of words for which could not give a dictionary definition, and also those for which I did not know at all. Like I said above, you are seeing your tax dollars at work. sch10/25/2025.]