Obscure word from Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolf
MalkierKnight Send a noteboard - 04/12/2012 07:07:32 PM
So, I randomly remembered a word I once read in Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolf (the guy is notorious for using obscure yet actual words to describe things/events in his universe, rather than resorting to made-up fantasy/sci-fi words). The trouble is, I can't for the life of me remember what the word was.
It had something to do with being laid out for an operation or the state of a person while they are opened up and being operated on, I think. It was a really good word. Does anyone happen to know what this word is?
I only ask because I know only the RAFO community would have such random knowledge haha.
It had something to do with being laid out for an operation or the state of a person while they are opened up and being operated on, I think. It was a really good word. Does anyone happen to know what this word is?
I only ask because I know only the RAFO community would have such random knowledge haha.
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Obscure word from Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolf
- 04/12/2012 07:07:32 PM
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Vivisection?
- 05/12/2012 03:30:33 PM
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There's also biopsy
- 05/12/2012 10:28:54 PM
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I can't believe either of those words qualify as "obscure", though.
- 05/12/2012 11:20:20 PM
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Considering "average" vocabulary...
- 05/12/2012 11:25:13 PM
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Ultrasound is what you call something that sounds super cool, right?
- 06/12/2012 12:51:40 AM
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Somehow I doubt many people with average vocabularies make it past chapter one though 
- 10/12/2012 01:16:27 PM
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- 10/12/2012 01:16:27 PM
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I was looking through lists of obscure Wolfe words online, and I couldn't find anything.
- 06/12/2012 12:18:14 AM
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If it's not vivisection maybe you can find the word off the Wolfewiki?
- 10/12/2012 01:24:11 PM
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