Nerve gas, Weapon of chemical warfare that affects the transmission of nerve impulses through the nervous system.
According to Ryan Compton's Infinite Jest by the Numbers, Wallace used a vocabulary of 20,584 unique words to write the 577,608-word Infinite Jest. 10. 11. n+1 has a neat story about where the name for Michael Pemulis, Hal's drug-dealing friend at Enfield Tennis Academy, came from.
Iâve no doubt you speak the gospel in declaring the permissible word count upper limit for literary fiction as 100,000, with 110,000 and up being âToo longâ. Thatâs ten â twenty thousand less than a handful of years ago.