I'm right now reading Hitch-22 (Christopher Hitchens) and being, as you said, delighted by the language. Here's an example: (the context is his first meeting w

I'm right now reading Hitch-22 (Christopher Hitchens) and being, as you said, delighted by the language. Here's an example: (the context is his first meeting with Martin Amis, a lifelong friend) Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try and conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday. Now that, I admire, and yet I can't imagine writing it. The only word that's at all unusual is "numinous."