Words by Lee Ballentine
28 words contributed
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A component verse form consisting of some or all of the following
acts and objects. Found materials. Real or imagined narrative
aids. Tables of contents. Indexes. Titles. Attributions. Apothegms.
Typesetter's marks. Diacritical marks. Marks of cadence. Songs.
Technical guides. Machine specifications. Pornographs.
Neologisms. A reordering of previous accoutres. Interpolation of
material between several previous accoutres. Extrapolation. Precis
of portions of a cascada (see cascada)
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A lie that contains a significant thread of the impossible
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1. Transcontinental bombers passing over the desert. 2. A skein of
ducks in flight.
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1. A collection of shadow script rendered on blue paper, with
yellow writing and collages. 2. A computer-generated list of the
names and residents of each city targeted by nuclear weapons. By
the early 21st century, it was possible to code this up-to-the-minute
information into each missile payload in such a way that the
resulting explosion would not only destroy the target, but would
etch the names of all probable casualties on a selected nearby
geographic feature. This data was continuously updated in flight.
3. (obs.) A university examination book.
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1. a form of internal dialog known to take place in clinical
schizophrenia, and measurable on the ossesemeter. 2. The trade
name of the drug developed to interfere with this dialog.
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A late 20th century automated station for dispensing currency to
the privileged.
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1. A weapon consisting of a 10 meter-long metal cable fired from
an acceleration barrel at the velocity of planetary rotation. 2.
(formerly) A citizen with one of the following proscribed names:
Abercorn, Atholl, Argyll, Beaufort, Bedford, Buccleuch, Devonshire,
Fife, Grafton, Hamilton, Leinster, Manchester, Marlborough,
Montrose, Newcastle, Norfolk, Northumberland, Portland,
Richmond, Roxburghe, Rutland, Somerset, St. Albans, Sutherland,
Wellington, Westminster.
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1. Popular treason or the crime of betrayal. 2. (obs.) A method
which serves to disconnect the general thesis of the natural
attitude, which is the thesis that the natural world exists. This thesis
can be asserted, denied, or doubted. To doubt the existence of an
object is to disconnect the thesis of the object (see Husserl).
Eidetic reduction requires, therefore, a sort of splitting of the ego.
While noting my conviction of the general thesis, I can bracket this
conviction to use eidetic reduction. This act of bracketing is known
as epokhe or abstention.
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1. Willing not to will, letting be. 2. A derisive term applied to
pacifists by mutants in the Zane wars.
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1. A tournament of inventors, in which contestants create and build
machines designed to find and destroy all other machines entered
in the tournament. 2. The great Lesbos tournament of 1994 which
led to outbreak of war between host country Greece and Panama,
home of the tournament winner.
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1. A free trade zone in the eastern Perney region, known for its
homespun floor coverings and opium plantations. 2. (archaic) A
jumble of wrecked aircraft
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A lie invented by the authorities to explain the disappearance and
probable death of political opponents.
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The truth. (see also aeon, fact, kephra, netzach, malkuth, qoph).
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a scheme which arranges museum exhibits according to Maoist
historical theory, giving emphasis to issues of labor and
exploitation. An ancient handcrafted object might be exhibited with
an estimate of the number of peasants exploited to produce it.
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A lie so convincing that the utterer believes it instantly upon telling
it to another
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Barlow took the opposite attitude, saying that if someone knocked
him down, he would get up and knock them down. I said I would
take the middle course or action which had worked for me on
several occasions. If someone has taken a swing at me, or is
advancing to do so, I use the same procedure a football player
uses when he's carrying the ball, extending the heel of the hand to
fend off interference, with the ball tucked under one arm. This is a
form of defence less likely than a blow with the fist to enrage your
opponent to further attack. At least he is puched off balance.
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A lie intended to spare the hearer pain.
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1. A prisoner who refuses to renounce or surrender his freedom. 2.
A dead man. 3. One of the old astronomers, the last of which were
hanged during the Supernumerations.
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Jesus and several of his friends are walking noisily on a road.
Ahead a hedge goes off to the right. Coming up to the hedge can
be seen another hedge beyond it, and a path away from the road
going uphill between the two hedges, which are so grown together
that anyone going that way will be thrashed by the brambles.
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A late 20th century religious movement which gained many
adherents after the Visitations. Useful texts include Joseph
Kockleman's Phenomenology, Gurwitsch's The Field of
Consciousness, Husserl by Paul Ricouer, Herbert Spiegleberg's
History of Phenomenology, and Existentialism and
Phenomenology by Lee and Mandelbaum.
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Name used when an English actor plays more than one part in a
drama. See also Spelvin.
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1. A desparate human being. 2. To scrape the bottom of the bowl.
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A lie which is improvized in the heat of the moment.
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A poem which provides a narrative context for a curteile, or shich
explores the microcontext of the curteile, of which speaks further in
a voice which opens in the curteile, or which creates voices to
answer the voices in the curteile of which it is a part.
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1. Any place left relatively intact amid nuclear devastation nearby.
2. A mythical city said to have survived the 20th century (see
Plinge).
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Name used in the program when an American actor plays more
than one part in a drama. Georgina Spelvin. See also Plinge.
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1. Calmness during periods of great unrest. 2. The sense of
hearing one's name called in a crowd. 3. Illegal use of patterns of
thought recognition.
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1. The peaceful success of humane principles in the Millenium. 2.
Man yanked from his horizontal four-footed posture by a leash.
See dechirement.