>That reminds me of an astonishingly pretentious book that, in its
>preface, used the author-invented word "architechtonics" without the
>slightest bit of irony. (It was, as I recall, a book on something
>along the lines of social theory intersecting with abstract theater --
>and I mean abstract theater that's difficult to distinguish from the
>most self-involved of performance art.)

Which is silly, because if you take the word apart it becomes obvious that it refers to designed terrestrial crust formations, presumably of a kind that would be written up in the Magrathean Journal of Planetary Engineers.

--G.
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