Tsuwm's wwftd is "ambit" but the definition he gives does not fit his quotation well. Let's see if the Board can find a definition that does. I have never seen a dancing dog, but what would you call the area to which he has been taught to confine his act?

Subject:
today's wwftd is... ambit
Date:
Mon, 27 Aug 2001 10:23:21 -0500 (CDT)
From:
wwftd master <mikef3@cfsmo.honeywell.com>
To:
wwftd minions <tsuwm@aol.com>




the worthless word for the day is: ambit

sphere of influence; scope

All at once, out of the Murk, a dozen mirror'd Lanthorns have leapt
alight together, as into their Glare now strolls a somewhat dishevel'd
Norfolk Terrier, with a raffish Gleam in its eye - whilst from somewhere
less illuminate comes a sprightly Overture upon Horn, Clarinet, and Cello,
in time to which the Dog steps back and forth in his bright Ambit.
- Thomas Pynchon, _Mason & Dixon_

this week: Pynchon, redux

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