Turgid

I’ve been read­ing the insane­ly-pop­u­lar *Da Vin­ci Code*. I sort of sus­pect­ed that no book so pop­u­lar could be any good, but I rec­og­nized that that was just me being an éli­tist and so when a cou­ple of peo­ple whose opin­ion I respect said nice things about it I went for­ward and bought it on the Palm.

What I want my more-lit­er­ate friends to explain to me is this: how can the waters of the Seine be *turgid*? Is it high … Read the rest