Will Self

author, journalist

British novelist and psychogeographer infamous for deploying the most abstruse words in the English language, once quizzing interviewers on "sesquipedalian" itself.

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  1. adj. difficult to understand

    His prose is famously abstruse and demanding.
  2. n. a feeling of weariness; listlessness.

    The summer heat brought a sense of general lassitude.
  3. adj. 1 able to walk about; 2 relating to or adapted for walking; n. a covered walkway as in a cloister

    Walking is an ambulatory meditation on the urban form.

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