All 3 Uses of
arid
in
The Crying of Lot 49
- Chuckled aridly.†
Chpt 1
- Perhaps it was only that notion, its arid hope, she sensed as this forenoon they made their seaward thrust, which would stop short of any sea.†
Chpt 3 *
- …stumbled indeed, without the aid of LSD or other indole alkaloids, onto a secret richness and concealed density of dream; onto a network by which X number of Americans are truly communicating whilst reserving their lies, recitations of routine, arid betrayals of spiritual poverty, for the official government delivery system; maybe even onto a real alternative to the exitlessness, to the absence of surprise to life, that harrows the head of everybody American you know, and you too,…†
Chpt 6
Definition:
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(arid) lacking sufficient water or rainfall
or:
lacking vitality or spirit