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.
This shows itâs not really the length of the book that matters. Steveâs last few books have been 33,000 to a little more than 36,000 words, double the length of his early work. âExercise Every Day,â which he is releasing right around the time this episode airs, is around 27,000 words. As far as writing books of different lengths, word count really doesnât matter.