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idleeric --> the concept has a history!

James Joyce figures in!

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/atlarge/?031201crat_atlarge

Louis Menard -->

The reader of a story expects an effect, and expects to be surprised by it,
too. If you try to name the sensations that stories deliver, you find
yourself with the sort of terms that (if you were a college teacher) you
would write "vague" or "ugh" next to when you saw them in a paper: a pang, a
shiver, a mental click, or what you might call (if you were a college
student) a general sense of "Whoa."Whoa is not exactly a term of art. You
know it when you feel it, though.
The difficulty of putting into words the effect a story produces is part of
the point. The story is words; the effect is wordless, or, at best, whoa.
James Joyce called the effect an "epiphany," a term whose theological
connotations have led, over the years, to a lot of critical
misunderstanding. What Joyce meant by an epiphany was, he said, just "a
revelation of the whatness of a thing"-a sudden apprehension of the way the
world unmediatedly is. Language being one of the principal means by which
the world is mediated, the epiphany is an experience beyond (or after, or
without) words. "Snow was general all over Ireland." The sentence is as
banal and literal as a weather report. (In fact, in the story it is a
weather report.) But if "The Dead" works, then that sentence, when it comes,
triggers the exact shiver of recognition that Joyce wants you to have.

idleeric --> "Catherine the Great was general all over Rumulus, Michigan"