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.
Below is a guide to story lengths and how they might be named (thereâs a fair bit of overlap as research shows that opinions differ greatly): 1  Flash fiction: under 1,000 words. 2  Short story: 500 to 17,000 words. 3  Novelette: 7,500 to 25,000 words. 4  Novella: 10,000 to 70,000 words. 5  Novel: 50,000 words or more.