Glossary

agitator: a snake that kills its prey by emitting a viscous translucent substance in a sudden copious stream

amnesia

apocrypha: a kind of shrub eaten on holy days

berserk: a corpse suddenly reanimated by the spinning of a hollow rotor which produces a ringing sound when struck in a lavish or grand manner by a pompous, unintelligible official who tends a herd of animals unduly anxious about destroying harmful insects from another world

cathode ray: a military weapon that throws a stream of sweet opaque jelly made from bones, hoofs, and skin

confabulation: language or action intended to mystify or confuse a member of the middle class of society

deco-primitivist: a person filled with excessive and often misguided enthusiasm for a small conical pile of hay

deliriomancy: the belief that spirits of the dead communicate with two kinds of anteaters that are very bad

droves: an extreme impulse to act like an unskilled labourer who trifles with drone pipes

drudgery: a liturgical formula of praise to a mischievous ugly demon rigid from sexual excitement

enthrallment: an emptying of the bowels, having to do with the mental state in which consciousness seems to expand

gloam: to pass the summer in a state of torpor induced artificially by motor-driven resonators and metal tubes

glyptodon: a superhuman malignant being whose destructive power comes from rapid release of a gluey substance redolent of typewritten matter

hedonist: a bad tempered, peevish builder of engines from whom one is descended

intaglio: an abnormal dread of any burst of a number of things at once

lechery: the branch of science that deals with the detection and study of a small imaginary being with crimson face and yellow eyes

lexiconjury: any doctrine or religious movement that advocates shameful wickedness with the alphabet

lysergic: a tubular organ used to fasten glass in sashes

Mandelbrot Set: a dangerously fascinating formation of clouds causing sleepiness in children

mesozoic: a person who suffers torture or death for the sake of a coil-shaped fossil shell

oneirica: a sacred book dealing with the adventures of rogues

ovarian: a person who plays the small organ at the anterior or ventral part of a megalithic tomb

phosphene: an outrageous, shocking, offensively indecent picture or design too small to be seen by a microscope

quaver: to receive without recoil or echo a celestial object

sasquatch: a noxious, pestilent plant inducing luxurious languor when eaten in a silk tube covered with wet organic material

satori: a card game in which the first player to get rid of his cards hangs from the ceiling to address with abusive language a group of aquatic invertebrate animals

spelunker: a surgical appliance worn by a composer of sacred poems to frighten children into obedience

spume: a kind of popular American music given off by stars

squall: to spurt out in jets with a loud discordant cry

stupefaction: psychiatric treatment by means of a signalling system that uses different positions of arms, bars or flags

tantrum: a small whirlpool made by a cat when it is contented

thrum: to beat an opponent so badly he leaves growing in clusters

tryptamine: a decorative lacelike pattern suggesting luxuriant and succulent moral depravity

unguent: a cud-chewing animal of the Andes with stinging tentacles and gelatinous body

vizsla: an inhabitant of a colony engaged in fighting a ten-armed mollusc that breeds in Arctic regions with greedy or malicious pleasure