While reading BOTNS I had a synaesthesic experience where reading the words felt like I was eating meat, rich roast cooked til it was falling off the bone. I r

While reading BOTNS I had a synaesthesic experience where reading the words felt like I was eating meat, rich roast cooked til it was falling off the bone. I read somewhere that Wolfe, rather than coining new words, searched the Oxford English Dictionary for obscure and forgotten words and used those instead.