From
Beckett's triliogy:
Molloy;
Malone Dies;
The Unnamable - an absurdly
Latinate term for
nosepicking. Beckett and
Joyce before him had wonderful parodies of the way in which the English language tends towards abstraction on two levels: One turning an action from a verbal form into a noun; Two using an impressive Greco-Roman root when the Anglo-Saxon would do just fine...
"...the ineluctible modality of the visible..." from
Ulysses