swad:  swad:
A lout, a raw recuit, a person who must be strapped and laced into discipline; hence swaddle.
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Life in the world, which had caused her ... Life in the world, which had caused her so much uncertainty before she was familiar with it, was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other in society in order not to commit murder.
Gabriel García Márquez
Love in the Time of Cholera
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biblioblogosphere: biblioblogosphere:
A humorous reference to the world of librarian blogging
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