Word of the week: word #3

1. The word: Simulacrum
2. Where I read it: The End of Mr. Y by Scarlette Thomas
3. The sentence I found it in: Then the whole system becomes weightless, it is no longer itself anything but a gigantic simulacrum -- not unreal,but a simulacrm, that is to say never exchanged for the real, but exchanged for itself in an uninterrupted circuit without reference or circumference.
4. Dictionary definition: an effigy, image, or representation
5. New sentence: Mary's painting could be seen as a simulacrum of her surpressed anger.