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Presumptuous. Why indeed?
Are there other words besides this one that rhyme with scrumptious? If so, why?
What a delightful page this has been. Not at all bumptious.
Of course. They're just making the shape of the letter D on the roof of the cave.
Given that they're glow-worms, wouldn't it have to be a symphony of lightedness?
...a glow-worm SYMPHONY? Really?
I bathe in a a glow-worm symphony of delightedness.
How delightful.
Okay, this whole conversation is delighting me.
The fact that Joyce came up with phrases like overweening bumptiousness delights me.
The fact that overweening is an actual, non-madeupical word absolutely delights me.
The fact that this is an actual, non-madeupical word absolutely delights me.
"... who for all his overweening bumptiousness in things scientific can scarcely distinguish an acid from an alkali ..."
Joyce, Ulysses, 14