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Marc *Dark Reader with a Thousand Young! Iä!*
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‘Warren swatted his thigh with the rolled-up program, and smiled up at the closed curtain that luffed with the activity of stagehands.’
Oh Bancroft, don’t think I don’t also recall how the buffel grass luffed in the Towers of Babel series also. Luffed is a wonderful word.
— 17 hours, 47 min ago
Oh Bancroft, don’t think I don’t also recall how the buffel grass luffed in the Towers of Babel series also. Luffed is a wonderful word.
Marc *Dark Reader with a Thousand Young! Iä!*
is on page 125 of 378
‘She had the unmistakable impression of being swallowed: a muscular undulation that massaged her into a helpless bolus.’
— Mar 20, 2026 05:22AM
Marc *Dark Reader with a Thousand Young! Iä!*
is on page 40 of 378
‘“You have a lot of nerve coming here, madam,” said the corpulent gentleman with drawn-on eyebrows.’
Man, this book is full of sentences.
— Mar 19, 2026 11:40AM
Man, this book is full of sentences.
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Mar 24, 2026 12:12PM
What really interests me, do you know all the words Bancroft uses? I adore Bancroft's writing though it is quite challinging to read for me as a non-native speaker because of the advanced vocabulary used.
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As a native speaker I still need a dictionary with him. It’s enlightening and not pretentious like it could be with lesser authors.
That is encouraging. Yes there is the risk in using uncommon words that it comes off as pretentious or elitist but it doesn't feel that way to me with Bancroft. It feels like he does it out of love for the language and originality rather than being a smart-ass with a thesaurus.
