So my wife and I have a term we use that we each blame the other for having made up: stupifany. It means "an epiphany about something you should have realized ages ago." In any case, I just had a stupifany: the term "ultraviolence" from Anthony Burgess's novel Clockwork Orange is a pun on "ultraviolet." At least I think so. Not surprising from an author who published a book about Finnegans Wake.
I think I'll make my stupifanies a regular feature of Positive Anymore.
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In Yiddish:
ot azoy kokht men lokshn
So *thats* how you cook noodles!
James Joyce coined "ultraviolence" in Finnegans Wake with "ulstravoliance."
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