MICHAEL SEAN STRICKLAND
Fifth Pod
Eyes fixed to the ground
§ 244 | Berdiwar
Berdîwar: Tg. (adj., n.) homeless; beggar, vagrant, vagabond (all three being corruptions of the Tamga original), wanderer, tramp. Bardiyah: ‘stalemate in chess’ (berdi/barde: ‘captive’). Tixputo for ‘guaro verde’. Bard wasalam, Greater plantain (
Plantago major), so-called soldier’s or mother’s herb, as it is a coagulant used to slow bleeding, both avulsive and post-partum. Berdi War: The so-called “War of the Reeds,” or Huerta-Fukari resistance against Flouzianian, Texan, and New Lexican invasion of their ancient bastion, the Far Gimmals (the twin volcanic islands of Aseli and Abenaseli). Berdi War: Huerta-Fukari ‘reed marsh’.
“Short men are painful. This painful marsh is a painful place. A short space for a short marsh. Painful people. [Note: On the Abenaseli side of the firth or frith separating the two islands, and directly opposite the port of Aseli, is a small marsh, the Berdi War, choked with halophilic berdi reeds. Hither, during the aptly named Berdi War (or War of the Reeds), were the Flouzianian marines (who ironically renamed the spot, Abri Bien) under the command of Lt. Col. Ebeyl, along with some irregular Texans and New Lexicans, driven from the port by warriors led by Oil Hat of the Huerta, and promptly ambushed and slaughtered by warriors led by Yellow Steel of the Fukari. A truce was swiftly negotiated, ensuring Huerta-Fukari independence to this day” (Coltrane, M. and S. Slekton, 2003, Goldbarg’s variants: An account of a journey to the Far Gimmals, ch. 1). “That berdîwars the questions.”
“Gentle berdîwar by the gentle water. A gentle minion, sexy whore. A gentle girtâblûllu. A gentle Poldevian prince. That water, transliterated. The transliterated berdîwar. Sexy whore, minion transliterated. A transliterated girtâblûllu. That Poldevian prince, transliterated” (Coltrane, M. and S. Slekton, 2003, Goldbarg’s variants: An account of a journey to the Far Gimmals, ch. 2).
"Before planting my scholia, however, allow me to acknowledge the profound encouragement and support—heterolexical, translexical, and always promiscuously textual—visited upon me by two gracious palearctic migrants to our Tetrastic regions, my colleagues at ISOCPHYS, Bernard Vighdan and Arnaut Raymond: they, more than anyone else, will recognize that whatever smut may blight this script, owes its wordism to that sprawling paperist AGSAD of conid sloimciks, those prominent inexplicable lexical berdîwars conjunctivised by spry dragomaniacs and slangy liars to make divastigatory mnasiakakoe (“bad seeds”) in sex logurs."
§ 245 | Bergerie
§ 246 | E.-B. Ervani
Eva-Breni Ervani, Tagma fashion designer and mother of
IV. In Tagma,
ebervani literally means ‘yes-resistance’ or ‘positive resistance’ and is a direct gloss of Norlian
ebaivibr. (Swopes meets E.-B. Ervani’s fourth and youngest daughter, Irena Veb née Vibra [see
IV] chez
Nobe Arinami.)
§ 247 | Ebaivibr!
Norlian gloss of Tg.
ebervani, ‘yes-resistance, positive resistance’. Title of book by Norlian author Vibra Bei, father of
IV.
§ 248 | Ra berīya
§ 249 | Re bristx
§ 250 | Gir berek
§ 251 | Dr. E. B. Nwie
Dr. E. B. Nwie, logiatrist specializing in isotherapeutic epology (
IsoEpo), offices located on the fifth or sixth floor of 65-bis,
rue Poussin, Paris, 16th.
§ 252 | Evin berx
§ 253 | Ivre badw
§ 254 | Riswa bir
§ 255 | Wairebaa
§ 256 | Ībtīdara
§ 257 | Anyerirn
The capital of Anyakyusyaland, an insular mountainous and riparian tribal region of South Appalachia famous for its peaceful transition from a hereditary monarchy to an anarcho-communalist political-economic system (see Monica Wilson, Anyakyusyan rituals of king- and kinship [Shatsbrook, ASI, 1957], and Victor “Tory” F. Copulano, Anarchy in Anyakyusyaland [Shatsbrook, ASI, 1987]). Not to be confused with Arinyern, a state in the northeast of South Us (Nirusa), whose capital is Swirabir.
§ 258 | Erxewanī
§ 259 | Riakxrai
§ 260 | Burrasca
The colt Reef Traverse unjustly seized from me and renamed Borrasca (meaning ‘storm’ in New Lexican) in a rather lengthy roman traditionnel (RT) put out a good yazdehan of years after I had begun composing my SNE from high above the African food, fashion, hair, and shoe shops of rue Poulet.
§ 261 | Bêabrûyî
Tg. ‘shame’. The city of Babiyure, capital of the state of Karibyim in the country of Bracrusa (the Bracrusan word for Nirusa, 'South Usa').
§ 262 | Ebeobehl
§ 263 | Ubriacar
§ 264 | Arboreal
§ 265 | Rebrirzi
§ 266 | Birkīyam
§ 267 | Rook beds
"It looked as if a wanton [rut], no [unwholy] occurrence when [F. Maa] and [Nolan E. Deal] (or [F] and [Norlia]; or [F] and [Noruda Tibreteps]) were in the same [rook beds] together, might presently be embarked upon." (A. Powell, Books do furnish a room, ch. 2, p. 87). Or, rather: Beds may furbish a rook, by [Asa Hlzts].
§ 268 | Raibbabe
§ 269 | Abri bien
§ 270 | Ucreibra
§ 271 | See Yabhu
§ 272 | Yazdehan
The primary asterisms of Yazdehan Nasimonian astronomy are
1) Mazauda, “the grandfather of the Makafi king (Sirius);”
2) Gijigiji, “the Blacksmith (Hephaestus/Canopus);”
3) Bugazau, “the Brewer;”
4) Hanburki, “the Doctor;”
5) Dunbuntunia, “the Night Watchman (Aldebaran), progenitor of the Kurmawa (the Pleiades);”
6) Tsoron Maje, “King of the Samiri;”
7) Jandodo, “King of the Makada Gundua da Kuru;”
8) Maguji, “the Miner/Smelter who begot the Maguzawa (Gemini);”
9) Asanni, the “Forefather of Bards and Dancers;”
10) Bakonyaki, “the Archer (Betelgeuse, Rigel, or Orion);” and
11) Awar, “the Salt-Worker, grandfather of the Awrawa.”
The celestial pole is denoted alternatively by Kakua, Tchunburburai, Randaya, and Shamuz. Myth recounts the story of a hero who killed a serpent, bringing with him a horse; i.e. the gradual replacement of the circumpolar constellation Draco by Ursa Major, and the assumption c. 1300 by Polaris of pole position (most recently held by Kochab).
the greatest of the chiefs of the country was Mazauda, the grandfather of Sarkin Makafi. Gijigiji was the blacksmitlh: Bugazau was the brewer: Hanburki doctored every sickness: Danbuntuiiia, the watchman of the town at night, was the progenitor of the Kurmawa. Tsoron Maje was " Sarkin Samiri," and Jandodo was " Sarkin Makada Gundua da Kuru." Beside these there was Maguji, who begot the Maguzawa, and was the miner and smelter among them. Again there was Asanni the forefather of minstrels and chief of the dancers. Bakonyaki was the arclher. Awar, grandfather of the Awrawa, worked salt of Awar. He was Sarkin Rua of this whole country. In all there were eleven of these pagan chiefs, and each was head of a large clain
The structure of reality is yazdehan; her nature, otiose.
“When Morgan was eleven he began keeping scrapbooks based on his interests in geography, Egyptology, astronomy and other subjects, paying as much attention to their layout and decoration as their content” (P. Crotty, Pride of Scotland. And the problems of Edwin Morgan’s reputation south of the border. TLS 18 March 2011, pp. 12–13)
§ 273 | Cha abran
I remember my mother’s tea stall (cha ’abran) in the Porto Vecho of Agua Prieta... Also, a cha’abran, is a sort of aśrama. Chanabra, a city on the Nachabar Coast of Acharnabbarchana.
§ 274 | Iris nuns
[Nin Risus, Nin Sri Us, Nin Sir Us, Nin Si Sur, Nin Is Sur, Nin Sis Ur,...]
§ 275 | All means
(“The implicit answer is the idea that our words have to be able to bear the weight, the fullness, of existence, we have to ‘weigh each word in one’s hand, weigh each tone,’ as a means of measuring out the account of our lives.” [S. Abell, Stress tests. Novels appear inside the novels of J. M. Coetzee because reader, writer and narrator stand for all humans relating to each other. TLS, 25 February 2011, pp. 3–4.])
by all means available do I intend to measure the account of my life
for all means of measuring our lives' accounts are valid
"Then by all means, my dear boy, not another word about it." [PIERRE: OR, THE AMBIGUITIES. BY HERMAN MELVILLE. NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, 1852.]
"One Friday night toward the end of May (and a week or so after the very special rehearsal Lo had not had me attend) the telephone in my study, where I was in the act of mopping up Gustave’s—I mean Gaston’s—king’s side, rang and Miss Emperor asked if Lo was coming next Tuesday because she had missed last Tuesday’s and today’s lessons. I said she would by all means—and went on with the game." [Lolita, II, 14]
§ 276 | Burglary
§ 277 | Brishind
Means ‘rain’ in the Tagma language of Vratśyata, . [One of Babur Rao’s three daughters, Brishind is a nonerand of IMSSOC.]
§ 278 | Rbelagae
§ 279 | Ubinecir
§ 280 | Iiboropk
I Birk Poo
I Bio Pork
I Obi Pork
I Biro Kop
I Brio Kop
I Rib Pook
I Kobo Rip
I Kobo Pir
I Book Rip
I Book Pir
I Boko Rip
I Boko Pir
I Brook Pi
I Bork Poi
I Broo Kip
I Boor Kip
I Prob Koi
I Prob Oik
§ 281 | Re beruni
§ 282 | Sneberay
In Norlian, lit. ‘before the snow’; i.e. the autumn equinox. In senimalistic terminology, however, SNE-Beray (sg. SNE-Barg) are the fundamental word groupings, loosely equivalent to paragraphs, of which each SNE-Dynagon Pod is composed.
§ 283 | Glo Bersh
§ 284 | Herebeca
§ 285 | Lare barg
“I want to sketch portraits of your dawn fresh teats, my horsey minion, sexy whore. Sift the trite fetor awaft in the kite of your trash rift, my hearty stirk. Stroke your kefir hare and shatter your earthy hake with my stiff rake.” Froth on, my stark hero, my fake fetishist, froth on!
§ 286 | Icurabit
§ 287 | Agore bar
§ 288 | Ninsrata
[Nin Ratas,
Nin Rasta,
Nin Atars,
Nin Taras,
Nin Tasar,
Nin A Tars,
Nin A Tsar,
Nin A Rats,
Nin A Arts,
Nin A Rast,
Nin A Star,...]
§ 289 | Rapacity
“She had a continual rapacity for other people’s facts; absorbing time, she held herself responsible for historic characters” [D. Barnes, Nightwood. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1937].
Tenderness and pity, surely, offer the best defense against brutal rapacity.
which, once its contemptible mask has been flicked off, displays a foolish hollow
foolish carp-face of hollow mendacity
beggar's face
yatra : pilgrimage
snivelling foolish rat's face.
carp
pika
pica font
rat
tayra
which, at heart, is hollow and foolish.
"Following with no show of rapacious haste (even taking time to wipe my feet on the mat) my school-girl daughter into the house." [Lolita, II, 8]
§ 290 | Dr. I. H. Gryx
After failing to display acceptable progress anent wordwork on, with, to, about, or towards my logiatrist
Dr. E. B. Nwie, I took up textwork with his or her voisin de quartier et collègue estimé(e), Dr. I. H. Gryx, a lexical therapist specializing in the treatment of rimalgia with
rime argile and textual alienation with ___ [?], with whom I embarked upon ce travail fort nécessaire sur, avec, et à travers des mots by showing him or her a draft of “The Lexical Cladistics of My
SNE” on our first occasion of allolexical palaver and heterotextual intercourse not far from the hedge-leaping equids of Auteuil, in the often dusk-tinted office on the top floor of numéro 43-bis located at that off-camber corner where
rue Poussin debouches into boulevard de Montmorency. He or she pointed out, enunciating through a mouth stuffed with Orian flat bread, that, in the sequence, par exemple: — «(§ 7.0) And now, from behind the crimson curtain of that chambre in which me and Mlle Nin were in habit of couching and cuddling, a third hand comes into play! It is to a Round World (vid.
supra, § 2.1, § 2.1.3) that Round Words (as stated in § 1.3,
supra) are drawn, lured like so many pulsating shoals of glittering fish; and, buoyed as they are by (§ 7.1) the schizomythologically heterolexical Semanticity (e.g.,
supra, § 3.1) of Senimality (sometimes mistakenly referred to as Senimalism), and bathed in (§ 7.2) the promiscuously textual Formedium (as I put it,
supra, in § 3.2) of Serious Novelistic Encounter (
SNE), I can direct your gaze to no more thrilling a work spawned by this nektic
ILE (Island of Lexical Ecology, as defined in § 4.0,
supra), no more enthrallingly piscatory an exemplar than these (§ 7.3)
Words to Make a Story Out of, by — you guessed it —
ME! Mais, hélas!, sans mon amie aimée, mon paramour au peau doré. Et je n’ai pas encore épuisé tous les mots.» — I had used the more formal “Mlle Nin” instead of the more intimate “Moéu” as a sort of distancing or dissociating or dissociative device (appareil à distanciation) to cope or deal or come to terms with (rétablir) my despair or despondency or desperation (désespoir) à propos the gap or
lacuna (brèche ou lacune) recently breached in the texture of my existence as a functioning sociolexical entity especially since it would have seemed that (s’apparaîtrait que) the always alliterative clinch of love (étreinte d’amour), not to speak of the parallax of the coucher-culbuter rail of
testa rima, would have demanded a second
M to complement the
me, as in “cette chambre in which me and Moéu were in habit of,” etc. [??] He or she urged me to continue, in despite of (en dépit de ou au mépris de ou plus simplement malgré) the trauma I experienced by having had to witness their delicate feathery wingbuds pulped into a viscous smear on the alien sidewalk, in my pursuit of the “pigeon project” (projet de pigeons), as this seemed like (comme) a viable way to channel and appease or assuage and ameliorate (assoupir) my guilt, my grief, my anger, my passion! I returned to my corner near the window and resumed my habituated stool-top perch (I could just make out, past a cornice ghoul and through the russet rustling shells of withered chestnut leaves along allée des Fortifications, the bleachers of the hippodrome in the distance) on the arm of the fauteuil of leather and brass and was on the point of reminding him or her that the project as I had conceived it was as much lexical as ornithicistic, but that now I had begun work on something new, something
SNE, when
Gasa Albiano, his or her secretary or assistant, factotum or
minion, sexy whore or something, discreetly entered to ask whether I would be making
payment comme ce qu’on fait normalement, ou —? Against her pale impassive visage, that complex mark of dash and question stood out like, in fact,
was, the arched stab of a black, sinistral brow.
§ 291 | Yek yatax
