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- An old lady stood there smiling, her dentures glowing white in the perpetual green twilight of the hallway.
p. 115.1 *perpetual = changeless (continuing forever without change)
- But still, we are forced to admit that in this woeful world, there exist objects with an almost palpable energy of menace ...spatulas that seem cursed, couches that contain literal and metaphorical stains of the past, houses that seem to perpetually groan and moan for the sins contained in their environs.†
p. 139.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(perpetual) continuing forever without change; or occurring so frequently it seems constant
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)