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.