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.
8 Responses to âWhen is a Short Story Too Long?â. 1  Several factors figure into the calculus of how long Iâm willing to sit with a piece and read. 2  The question now is: when is a comment too long? 3  Dear Joe, I couldnât agree more!  For me, 8-10,000 words is a good cutoff for a short story, especially in literary magazines. I like to crawl into bed and have at one story during the dayâs last thirty-minute vestige of consciousness; and I strongly prefer to finish that story.