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pernicious
Tending to cause death or serious injury; causing great harm; destructive.
(Dictionary.com)

ersatz
(Ger.) Being an imitation or a substitute, usually an inferior one; artificial.
(Dictionary.com)

obscurum per obscurius
(Lat.) the obscure by the more obscure
(The Penguin Dictionary for Writers and Editors)

 
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Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
Later than usual one summer morning in 1984, Zoyd Wheeler drifted awake in sunlight through a creeping fig that hung in the window, with a squadron of blue jays stomping around on the roof.

Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
In 1517, Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, feeling great pity for the Indians who grew worn and lean in the drudging infernos of the Antillean gold mines, proposed to Emperor Charles V that Negroes be brought to the isles of the Caribbean, so that they might grow worn and lean in the drudging infernos of the Antillean gold mines.

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Howard Dean for President, 2004

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