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Zunayeed Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary

Neuropudding means what ?

Sharing videos, binge-watching Netflix, the resultant neuro-pudding at the end of an epic gaming marathon, the perverse seduction of recording and devouring our most ordinary human thoughts on Facebook and Instagram — Wallace somehow knew all this was coming, and (as the man himself might have put it) it gave him the howling fantods.
  

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It is probably a term that the writer has invented. It seems to refer to a state when one's brain is exhausted or saturated, and one has difficulty thinking clearly.

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  • It is probably a term that the writer has invented.
  • It seems to refer to a state when one's brain is exhausted or saturated, and one has difficulty thinking clearly.
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It is probably a term that the writer has invented. It seems to refer to a state when one's brain is exhausted or saturated, and one has difficulty thinking clearly.
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As Wallace new all the activities he is gonna experience, he was somehow in an uneasy state.

As a whole, is it the meaning of the sentence ?
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zunayeedAs Wallace new all the activities he is gonna experience,
As Wallace knew all the activities he was going to experience,

"Gonna" is a spoken contraction. It is not suitable for writing unless it is part of a quote.
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zunayeedAs Wallace new all the activities he is gonna experience, he was somehow in an uneasy state.As a whole, is it the meaning of the sentence ?
I think it is probably not so much that he was going to experience it, more that the whole of society was going to experience it.
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I think you are absolutely right. It is the whole society that was going to experience it. Still I am struggling to locate the main verb as well as main clause in the above part :

'Sharing videos, binge-watching Netflix, the resultant neuro-pudding at the end of an epic gaming marathon, the perverse seduction of recording and devouring our most ordinary human thoughts on Facebook
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zunayeed'Sharing videos, binge-watching Netflix, the resultant neuro-pudding at the end of an epic gaming marathon, the perverse seduction of recording and devouring our most ordinary human thoughts on Facebook and Instagram '
There is no main verb here. This is a series of noun phrases explaining what "all this" refers to. The main verb of the sentence is "kn
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What is the name of this book please ? thx

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