From Beckett's triliogy: Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable - an absurdly Latinate term for nosepicking. Beckett and Joyce before him had wonderful parodies of the way in which the English language tends towards abstraction on two levels: One turning an action from a verbal form into a noun; Two using an impressive Greco-Roman root when the Anglo-Saxon would do just fine...
"...the ineluctible modality of the visible..." from Ulysses