Dolf+11-16+Definitions

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** Word/Phrase ** || ** Meaning ** || 11 ||  non-being  || The state of not existing, and the feelings associated with this state. Port is too immersed in this state (from which he has just awakened) to even remotely care about his surroundings. || 11 ||  certitude  || “the state of being or feeling certain” – Merriam Webster. In the context, Port awakens, but does not bother to ascertain where and what he is, and that there is the absolute certainty of “infinite sadness”, which is however, reassuring as he is familiar with it. || 11 ||  mules
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|| “a shoe or a slipper without quarter or heel strap” – Merriam Webster || 13 || // Café d’Eckmühl-Noiseux // || // (has already been defined by Ms. Carlson to serve as an example ////à go to home page, follow Sheltering Sky link, and then scroll down) // || 13 || // Fezzes // || // (has already been defined by Ms. Carlson to serve as an example ////à go to home page, follow Sheltering Sky link, and then scroll down) // || 14 ||  maw  || Refers to the “receptacle into which food is taken by swallowing” or “throat…of a //wild animal//” (Merriam-Webster). In the context, the narrator details how the travelers had been “spewed out” from the boat’s “comfortable maw” when first arriving in North Africa. The word choice personifies the boat as a sort of beast, which aids in establishing the savage nature of the place the protagonists have just arrived at. || 15 ||  “his late Paramount way”

|| Due to the capitalisation, we can ascertain that in the context, it is not the //adjective “//paramount” that is being implied. Rather, a //noun// is implied. In the context, it is said that Kit often tells Tunner (though their names have not yet been revealed to us) that he is //very handsome// in this particular way. This implies that Paramount //Pictures Corporation// is being referred to, a film production company, and that thus Kit is saying that Tunner looks like an actor that would be cast in one of their movies.

 || 16 ||  malady  || “an unwholesome and disordered condition” – Merriam Webster. In the context, Port is comforting a distraught Kit, who is arguing that the aftermath of the war causes people to “have character, no beauty, no charm, no culture – nothing, nothing”. Port agrees with Kit in that that will eventually happen, but relates his view that some places will withstand this “unwholesome and disordered situation” that is impending for longer than she might think (the Sahara being one of those places). However, another definition of this word is “a disease or disorder of the **animal** body” possibly implying that the Sahara is comparable to a beat through this double meaning, underscoring its savageness. || 16 ||  coloratura soprano  || The term “coloratura” refers to elaborate vocal embellishment (Merriam-Webster) and “ornate vocal figuration”, and is most commonly used coupled with the word “soprano” (a person capable of the highest singing voice known to women and boys – Merriam Webster) in order to refer to those sopranos that are capable of manipulating their voice into “ornate figurations” such as melismas, etc. Basically, they’re those sopranos that go the “extra mile” – this is referred to when the **coloratura** soprano on the radio is preparing for “the inevitable high final note” – a characteristic of coloratura. || 16 ||  aria  || “an accompanied elaborate melody sung (as in an opera) by a single voice” – Merriam Webster. This is what is sung by the coloratura soprano on the radio. ||