Word: silverfish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...provides plenty. Esoteric words ("canescing," "superfetation," "glabrous") gambol freely with lowlife slang. Natalie Novotny, Wren's girl friend, refuses his offer to pay for dinner because he has already picked up the Czech. Objects and people are described in loopy, gargantuan locutions. A chandelier becomes a "hippodrome for silverfish"; an incidental character has "the dental terrain of a boar...
...followed one of my roommates home one night when he was with a girl named Lucy, and so the cat was named Lucy even thought it was a male cat. The cat lived on Pizza crusts, my roommate's marijuana plant. which he mistook for catnip, catfood, and silverfish, which are little bugs that come out of the radiator in the bathroom. The cat would have been indispensable as a silverfish-catcher if we had wanted the silverfish caught. He would sit patiently beside the radiator like a panther in the jungle, waiting for a silverfish so small it could...
Herbert W. Levi, curator of Arachnology at the comparative zoology section of the museum, first discovered the medium-sized brownish spiders in the building in 1960. After checking the building, he found it infested with the spiders. Citing a mysterious drop in the museum's silverfish population in 1937, and noting that the spiders eat silverfish, he concluded that the spiders have probably been in the museum for over 20 years...
...number of eyewitnesses described the gunman as about six feet tall and wearing a lacquered wig "of a silverfish color" over short hair, lensless glasses, and a black trench coat...