Word of the Day: Inspissate

"Amid a deafening babble of voices in a low-pitched cellar, the Soviet Club meets and dines. Ethics and sociology, the latest vortices of the Whirligig school of verse, combine with the smoke of countless cigarettes to produce an inspissated atmosphere, through which flat, angular mural paintings dimly lower upon the revellers."

-- Lord Peter, the Complete Lord Peter Whimsey Stories, by Dorothy Sayers. "The Fascinating Problem of Uncle Meleager's Will," pg. 39. (c) 1972 Harper & Row Publishers, Inc.

(And, as "No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews," I hereby state: It's a great book. Go read it.)