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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)

Thomas the Obscure (French title: Thomas l'obscure) is a 1941 experimental novel by Maurice Blanchot. It was translated into English in 1973 by Robert D. Lamberton.

The protagonists are Thomas and Anne who meet at a country hotel.

The title is a reference to Heraclitus, who was known as The Obscure, as well as the English novel Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy.

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