Michael Chabon
2 Quotations from Michael Chabon
| fanspeak n. | 2009 Amateur Family in Manhood for Amateurs Fan is more accurate, I suppose, but it spends too much time hanging around the sports page and ESPN, and anyway, the word (even with its fanspeak plural, fen) is a clipped form of the pejorative fanatic, with all its connotations of narrowness, intolerance, unreason, a condemnatory fervor. |
| replicant n. 2 | 1995 Wonder Boys 149 A handsome young family was crossing the street in front of us, a slender pair of blond parents in khaki and plaid surrounded by an orderly tangle of cute blond replicant children. |