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jaime_d commented on the word hirudination
". . .and in Honolulu his fifth, Urbain, was a victim of hirudination, slain by a gigantic worm sucking his blood, totally draining him, so that as many as 20 transfusions would fail to bring him back." Gilbert Adair translation of Georges Perec's La Disparition
August 11, 2010
yarb commented on the word hirudination
Am I to infer that this word means "death by a gigantic worm sucking one's blood"?
If so, it's more than a bit spiffy!
August 11, 2010