Vocab Lesson

I just raced to the finish of Richard Price's new novel Lush Life, and along the way I learned a few new words and terms: want cards, a whistle, a bump, shirred, wits, paradiddle, etc.

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  1. Isn't paradiddle a drum rudiment?

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  2. I learned about paradiddle in college from those soccer-playing twins.

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  3. any good? someone just gave me a copy.

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  4. it's great-- tom wolfe with cops . . .

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