Both Uses of
intrusion
in
A Prayer for Owen Meany
- Owen Meany used to say that we residents of Gravesend were sitting over a bona fide outcrop of intrusive igneous rock; he would say this with an implied reverence—as if the consensus of the Gravesend community was that the Exeter Pluton was as valuable as a mother lode of gold.†
p. 14.1 *intrusive = unwelcome involvement
- And it turned out that Owen Meany didn't know a metamorphic schist from an igneous intrusion—unless the latter was granite.†
p. 447.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(intrusion) an involvement or interruption that is unwelcome
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
In geology, intrusion can reference the forcing of molten rock into fissures or between strata of an earlier rock formation.