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Word help please. The word is thalassic and this is how it is used on dictionary.com He shook his head?
He shook his head; and I, recalling the crimson chamber in his castle, speculated upon his living arrangements in thalassic caverns I could scarcely conceive. So does this mean the castle and caverns are surrounded by water or an ocean ? Thank you.
3 Answers
- RayLv 66 years ago
The passage comes from Gene Wolfe's science fiction novel Urth of the New Sun.
In this context, Wolfe used it to mean under the sea.
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"... Those who live under the sea already, as I have now for fifty years."
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He shook his head; and I, recalling the crimson chamber in his castle, speculated upon his living arrangements in thalassic caverns I could scarcely conceive.
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- GeomiLv 76 years ago
Thalium is a soft, silver-white, metalic chemical element whose compounds that are very poisonous. So a thalassic cave is a poisonous cavern. Good luck.
Source: A very good dictionary.
I was a college professor of education.
