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Isn't "Sonder" born out of the BOOK OF OBSCURE SORROWS" project?

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I particularly liked the word, "Opia" out of that book. Sona & I were coincidentally planning on naming out child that if ever.

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Yes. But several people made the connection before I saw where it came from.

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Gotta love them NarCons'.

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opia

n. the ambiguous intensity of looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerableтАФtheir pupils glittering, bottomless and opaqueтАФas if you were peering through a hole in the door of a house, able to tell that thereтАЩs someone standing there, but unable to tell if youтАЩre looking in or looking out.

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And DeLillo added a dream word in his last work THE SILENCE: "umbrella'd ambuscade"

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