What Does It Mean to Herripleate?

(A couple 0dds & Ends for Wednesday July 18.)

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Herrippleate: To read something so beautiful that the only response is to metaphorically shiver. [1]

I was introduced to this wonderful word by Prof. William Vande Kopple in one of my English classes at Calvin College. Prof. Vande Kopple got it from one of his professors, whom I think coined it.

IMHO you will find something to herrippleate over on nearly every page of anything written by Truman Capote (except private letters, which are remarkable only for their schoolgirlish tenor).

[June 20, 2012]

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Just heard an NPR report [June 27, 2012] that it takes 50 lbs of water to produce one hamburger. The unstated assumption was that the water is wasted. Of course, it's not, it gets recycled like the water you and I drink.

BTW, 50 lbs of water is about 6 gallons.

The rain falls on the just and the unjust alike, and on cows and goats and sheep and horses. Some rain produces hamburgers, some the tomatoes that make our ketchup, some the flour that makes our buns, and still more the pickles, onions and lettuce that don't upset us. Let's be fair before we begin disparaging water use for what accounts for only 50% of what winds up in that wrapper.

[June 27, 2012]

[1]
Perhaps an alteration of "horripilate"?  I'm pretty sure I'm recalling the spelling and meaning of this correctly from Prof Vande Kopple's classroom, but it's been a lot of years and I could be mistaken.