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oblivion
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the state of being disregarded or forgotten
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Mantra
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A sacred verbal formula repeated in prayer, meditation or incantation, such as an invocation to God or a syllable or portion of scripture containing mystical potentialities
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Fingale
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wangle: achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods
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Charisma
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is "the ability to develop or inspire in others an ideological commitment to a particular point of view.
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Lunarscape
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A picture or other representation of the moon's surface
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Lunatic
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an insane person
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Conscience
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motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions
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Omniscient
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The narrator knows everything, can shift in time and place at whim, from character to character, inside people's thoughts, feelings and motives.
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Paradox
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logic) a statement that contradicts itself; "`I always lie' is a paradox because if it is true it must be false"
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Quixotic
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Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has the misfortune to know that the gentleman's name is pronounced Ke-ho-tay.
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