Entry: aperture (n.)
In context: “…hearing
his head’s pulse as receding thunder and watching his vision’s circle shrink as
a red aperture around his sight rotates steadily in from the edges, at the height
of which he could think only, despite the pain and the panic, of what a truly
dumb and silly way this was, after all this time, to die, a thought which the
towel and tape denied expression via the rueful grin with which the best men
meet the dumbest ends…”
Definition: Optics.
The space through which light passes in any optical instrument (though there is
no material opening)
Other: This one is more interesting, I think, for the sentence
than for the term. Look, I don’t want to
harp on and on about how impressed I am with Wallace’s prose, but that’s just
fantastic.
SNOOT score: 1
Page: 59
Source: Oxford English Dictionary
SNOOT score: 1
Page: 59
Source: Oxford English Dictionary
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