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#78164
08/13/2002 3:12 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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"'Vamanos, amigos,' he whispered, and threw the busted leather flintcraw
over the loose weave of the saddlecock. And they rode on in the
friscalating dusklight." - Wes Anderson, The Royal Tenenbaums
(read from his book by Eli Cash, Owen Wilson's character)
-tsuwm http://home.mn.rr.com/wwftd/
Dear tsuwm: "friscalating" is not a word I can expect to use, or encounter elsewhere.
But what in hell is a "flintcraw" and a "saddlecock"?
Can you tell us?
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#78165
08/13/2002 5:02 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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I suspect, in the extreme, that these are also nonce words confabulated by Wes Anderson in his effort to create a faux-Cormack-McCarthy ethos for the character of Eli Cash. [see The Royal Tenebaums]
...and as long as we're about it, let's have some comments from anyone who has seen this odd* movie.
*strange or peculiar
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