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Chris -- 2025-05-10
In ‘Ada’ Vladimir Nabokov has his principal characters play ominously with the triple anagram ‘insect-incest-nicest.’ Apparently, this verbal similarity gets picked up outside of fiction too. The reshaping is perhaps influenced by the real or imagined mindelss fecundity of insects. Examples:
Hs realtionship with hii sister may well have been insectuous but this would
hardly have been the first case of such activity.
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We know that politics and political reporting is an insectuous business, ...
www.patrickruffini.com/archives/2005/03 … taffer.php
Sounded almost as if it was vaugely insectuous. I wondered if Luke was his brother or something, he being the guy in the photo.
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But HCE is compromised by guilt, his nebulous sin in the park and his “insectuouslonging†burden him with the stain of “original sin.
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Zues was a womanizer and had an insectuous relationship with his sister, Loki killed his brother for no other reason than he was told it couldn’t be done, ...
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... doubtlessly a menagerie of technologies and the oversite of a few intellectually insectuous eggheads?
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You just called me a cute and cuddly penguin. And insectuous penguin, but a penguin none-the-less.
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Our southeastern shore is insectuous with corruption.
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The forum is very handy to reply to each submission individually.
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To that I must add the nominalized form of the eggcorn above: “insects” for “incest”. My neighbor was telling me about her cousins who got caught committing “insects” together. I tremble to think the directions that that could be taken in!
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