Word: jesting
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...marry. And I'm going to be blunt and plain: if one ever looks at me like that, I'm going to kill him and tell God he died." JIMMY SWAGGART, televangelist preacher, discussing gay marriage on his TV show. He later apologized, saying the remarks were made in jest...
...BOOKS: More infinite jest...
Ishizuka can get away with a jest; he has cred all his own. Although many divisions in the Sony juggernaut have stumbled in recent years, Ishizuka has kept his department at the forefront of the exploding digital-camera industry by introducing innovative products...
Wallace, who hasn't put out a novel since his brilliant, dense Infinite Jest in 1996 (or any other fiction at all in five years), takes it easy on the reader here. Sure, his three-page-long sentences can make Faulkner look like Hemingway, and even short sentences can require four trips to the dictionary, but he has dropped his numbered footnotes, has cut down on the math formulas and tells linear tales nearly grounded in reality. This is as close as the guy is going to get to beach reading...
Alright, you say, sounds like a soldier getting ready for battle. The speaker, you think, must be preparing for the worst, for no one would jest about war in these troubled times...