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Hi prof, I’m reading William Gibson’s Count Zero and came across a word that’s difficult to look up: slay. One of the main characters is studying this story’s McGuffin, an assemblage in the style of Joseph Cornell, a wooden box with carefully arranged small objects. ”Bone and curcuit-gold, dead lace and a dull white marble rolled from slay.” As a noun, slay can be a reed, as in a part of a loom. But that is a comb-like thing that you can’t roll up into a marble. Or is it just a misprint and the marble is rolled from clay? 
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Oct 4, 2023 16:52
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Thanks  I spent far too long trying to look up alternative meanings for slay, until I wrote that post and welp. It really is a good story.
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Oct 5, 2023 10:35
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