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24 November 2011
Fyodor Dostoyevsky Notes From Underground
What to make of the "slap" and the previous "knocking into" of the friend, the police officer? All of the narrator's efforts are focused on this one moment of physical contact.
One of the great things about being a grad student at Georgia State is that I have access to the OED -- the Oxford English Dictionary!
Dissonance
1. The quality or fact of being dissonant; an inharmonious or harsh sound or combination of sounds; = DISCORD 3a, 4. spec. in Music, A combination of tones causing beats (cf. BEAT n.1 8), and thus producing a harsh effect; also, a note which in combination with others produces this effect.
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