All 3 Uses of
fracture
in
Oryx and Crake
- Once he'd discovered that the cat family purred at the same frequency as the ultrasound used on bone fractures and skin lesions and were thus equipped with their own self-healing mechanism, he'd turned himself inside out in the attempt to install that feature.†
p. 156.6
- These women would begin to see how fractured he was, they'd want to help him gain perspective on life and access the positive aspects of his own spirituality.†
p. 190.1 *
- A skinny girl wearing nothing but high-heeled sandals and standing on her head; a blonde dangling from a hook in the ceiling in some kind of black-leather multiple-fracture truss, blindfolded but with her mouth sagging open in a hit-me-again drool; a big woman with huge breast implants and wet red lipstick, bending over and sticking out her pierced tongue.†
p. 271.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(fracture) a crack or break, or to cause one, especially in something hard -- such as a bone
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Fracture can also be used metaphorically as in "fracture the balance of power."