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here's a quote from Chris WunderLee's novella, The Loony:
"Albert was back in New England, long since forgetting his plunge into the Pacific, and beginning what was already a controversially castrophenic career..."
this seems to be a nonce-word (or non-word), but I'm guessing it's meant to mean: 1) 'military', as in Albert's (tenuous) connection to the M-I complex, (see castrametation, the making of a military camp; fr. L. castrum, fortified place) 2) possibly to be confused with castrophrenia*, relating to the belief that one's thoughts are being stolen, *itself of some dubiety 3) just another nonce word, 4) none/all of the above.
NB: WunderLee seems to be a tad Joycean with his wordplay.
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Maybe something to do with castro? (long shot) castro translations
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well, that would seem to be the idea behind castrophrenia, 1. A morbid fear or delusion, occasional in schizophrenic patients, that their thoughts are being sucked out of their brains by enemies. 2. Etymology: castrate plus -phrenia, 'mental disorder'.
but that's not 'r' word.
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Hmm maybe it's linked in some way to catasrophic? but incorporating the military forts and castles stuff...you know like slurring it together...CAAASTTTROFFFICC then phenia-ed after he had come to that conclusion?
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Aye! Totally off topic for a moment. I suddenly regocnize your avatar picture, Bexter. Smaug under the mountain sitting on his treasures. All this time I thought it was a kind of crashed omelet with tomato. I like The Hobbit.
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Aye! Totally off topic for a moment. I suddenly regocnize your avatar picture. Smaug under the mountain sitting on his treasures. All this time I thought it was a kind of crashed omelet with tomato. I like The Hobbit. He mentioned, I believe, that it is a dragon, but I have a hard time distinguishing it from an egg as well. Glad to know. Also glad, Bran, to know you are a LOTR fan.
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Smaug here he is a bit bigger
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Aye! Totally off topic for a moment. I suddenly regocnize your avatar picture. Smaug under the mountain sitting on his treasures. All this time I thought it was a kind of crashed omelet with tomato. I like The Hobbit. He mentioned, I believe, that it is a dragon, but I have a hard time distinguishing it from an egg as well. Glad to know. Also glad, Bran, to know you are a LOTR fan. she's not the only one!! :¬ )
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Terrific! Thanks for letting me know. I've read the series about every year since high school, skipping maybe a few, but not too many. I love the series. Good to know there are fans of Tolkien out here Buff, Bex, Bran. Others??
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Smaug here he is a bit bigger \\ Thanks, Bex, now I can see it. Love Smaug.
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