Panjandrum: The 'giant firework' built to break Hitler's Atlantic Wall

Re:Panjandrum: The 'giant firework' built to break Hitler's ... by the__alchemist on Sunday June 08, 2025 @03:37PM (#44219054)

Panjandrum: Fraa Orolo’s pejorative term for a high-ranking official of the Sæcular Power.

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Re:Panjandrum: The 'giant firework' built to break Hitler's ... by lelandfe on Sunday June 08, 2025 @03:53PM (#44219131)

Stephenson enjoys the word. He also used it in Cryptonomicon. I keep a running list of new words I encounter and share them online occasionally. Someone once recognized I was reading Cryptonomicon just from a string of those new words, lol.

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Re:Panjandrum: The 'giant firework' built to break Hitler's ... by KineticLensman on Sunday June 08, 2025 @03:58PM (#44219162)

If you enjoy encountering new words and phrases such as 'theurgic vermin' then you might like China Miéville’s Kraken. I had to read it with a copy of the OED and Wikipedia to get the most from it.

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Re:Panjandrum: The 'giant firework' built to break Hitler's ... by almostkindatech on Monday June 09, 2025 @05:39AM (#44222759)

Or read anything by Will Self

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Re:Panjandrum: The 'giant firework' built to break Hitler's ... by Rebelgecko on Sunday June 08, 2025 @04:43PM (#44219364)

I had a pretty good list for Polostan

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Re:Panjandrum: The 'giant firework' built to break Hitler's ... by ben_ja_min on Sunday June 08, 2025 @04:27PM (#44219286)

Thank you for this. I was going nuts trying to figure out where I had read this before. Peace and love! For the uninitiated, the Neil Stephenson novel, "Anathem", is brilliant and extremely entertaining.

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Re:Panjandrum: The 'giant firework' built to break Hitler's ... by 6LLvveMx2koXfwn on Sunday June 08, 2025 @05:09PM (#44219507)

And if you enjoyed that you'd possibly enjoy The Glass Bead Game

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