Talk:Sense of wonder

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[edit] And the word is.. ? =

"This is not to say that the sense of wonder requires complete comprehension — indeed, the single most famous example of "sensawunda" in all of science fiction involves a word that not only had not appeared in the work in question prior to its mention at the end, but was, in fact, a neologism, and had not previously appeared in the English language before — the word in question appears in A.E. Van Vogt's The Weapon Makers, and is widely known in the science fiction community. (Clute & Nichols 1993, Moskowitz 1974)" ...... so.. what's the word?

Is this article being deliberately cryptic? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.101.160.251 (talk • contribs)

The word is "sevagram". Yes, I think it's being deliberately cryptic. I'm not sure that's the best approach, but it seems that's the intent. Mike Christie (talk) 19:16, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

i'm quite sure it is not the best approach. i just read this article and got pissed off. i haven't read the weapon makers or feersum endjinn, so i can't fix things, but if anyone has (or has better examples to offer), please make this article less of a high-fiving nerd in-joke and more of a help to the curious. --dan (talk) 02:04, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

and as a sidenote, sevagram isn't even a neologism. apparently it's a village in india associated with ghandi. --dan (talk) 02:15, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

I agree; I have both the books in question and don't find this an informative article. I hope to get to this one day, but in the meantime if someone else wants to clean it up it would be appreciated. Mike Christie (talk) 02:50, 3 March 2008 (UTC)