Weirded Out

I’ve been reading a great book. The kind I can’t read in the same room as my husband because he keeps asking me what I’m laughing at. Kind of odd, since the book is about Armageddon.

Anyway, the authors (yes, it took two people to write this) are apparently quite fond of a word that I have heard, but never knew the meaning of. I kept thinking I’d figure it out from the context, but it just wasn’t happening. After it popped up for about the tenth time, I finally got out the dictionary.

Keep in mind that I’m in the middle of a book about the end of the world, prophecy, supernatural forces, etc.

I opened the 1500+ page dictionary. And realized I had opened it to the exact page the word was on.

It was positively ineffable.

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4 Comments

  1. Lisa
    Posted May 20, 2005 at 9:12 AM | Permalink

    I had to look it up too….never heard of it! Must be a favorite word of the authors tho!

  2. tommy
    Posted May 20, 2005 at 11:30 AM | Permalink

    Am I going to get smarter by coming by here?

  3. sp00kalot
    Posted May 20, 2005 at 12:35 PM | Permalink

    I’ve never heard of it either and I am going to use ineffable five times today so I know it for good. Won’t be hard either because most things I think about are incapable of being expressed in words. At least the words I know.

  4. panthergirl
    Posted May 21, 2005 at 9:30 PM | Permalink

    I believe “ineffable” is used in the TS Eliot work that “Cats” is based on…

    But you know what is REALLY weird? Before I saw what book you are reading, I wondered if it was The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (because my son and I are reading it right now). Well, of course it’s not…but Neil Gaiman (one of the authors of your book) wrote the COMPANION to the HHGG!! Totally weird.