Only about 50 pages left and still regularly encountering gorgeous sentences with interesting words.
Tenon – a projecting member in a piece of wood or other material for insertion into a mortise to make a joint
From The Orchard Keeper:
“They go on–steps soft now in the rank humus earth, or where carapaced with lichens the texture of old green velvet, or wet and spongy earth tenoned with roots, the lecherous ganglia of things growing–coming down, pursuing the shadowline into the smoking river valley.”
Jonas David 