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OP Tsuwm's wwftd is "empyrean", too beautiful a word to have been used in the quote he gives:
"Then in 1962 [Karpinsky] joined the empyrean of the
adult Communist world. He was promoted to Pravda's
editorial board heading the department of Marxism-
Leninism. He had made it."
- David Remnick,
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
A much more suitable word would have been "tartarean" = "infernal"
http:///home.mn.rr.com/wwftd/
in the context of Karpinsky's goals (at that time), it perfectly captures his state of mind; and empyrean has a noun sense, whereas Tartarean is only an adj. but I get your meaning.
here's a link that works:
http://home.mn.rr.com/wwftd/
Oh, tsuwm, I completely agree with Dr. Bill in that "empyrean" is a beautiful word. I have no idea which of you is correct as to the subtleties of its usage, but I think that I have now found the perfect word that was missing from a favorite poem I wrote last spring that just didn't seem right in a particular line or two.
And that was my day 1 of wwftd!
Thanks for that,
m
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