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Immoderate Musings; Quibblesome Quarrels; Risible Rhapsodies on Music and Morals 
by David Van Alstyne 
Verses 197 - 240 Verses: 200 / 210 / 220 / 230 GLOSSARY PAGE 1 / PAGE 2 / PAGE 3 / PAGE 4 / PAGE 6 
197) agonal attempts to allay any manneristic airs of agonistic atticism, as well as foregoing shots at oracular calumniation while ardently avoiding rococo ornamentation, and 198) avidly averting any pejorative appellation, or the acrid flood, the tempestuous tide, the full fluviatile amplitude of self-disgust and disinclination, including bodily mortifying self-flagellation which would 199) ineludibly inhere to anxieties of inadequacy in unceasing circumspection and self-exploration, (for socialization, wouldn't that be a sad succedaneum, not easily identified by modest minimization of 200) impercipiently flibbertigibbety, hammily niminy-piminy, yea, disproportionately, purblindly prideful and prismatic, or at least orgulously orotund, inordinately overblown, even farcically vain and vacuously courtly coruscation?), while neither 201) pusillanimously pussyfooting into extra-large loblollies of unscholarly squiggling and agnostic subjectivization, nor pratfalling into potholes or paratactical mudpuddles of unsalvagability in encumbering equivocation, nor 202) plowing into philological pits of piddling piffle all antsy and atwitter with omnidirectional fecundation, nor being pitched, head first, by demotic imprecision, into parlous, polysemous turgidities of tergiversation, nor 203) railing off the rails in an unruly romp, an unsparing, rip-roaring rumble, a rollicking rampage toward a froward free-for-all, a brawl of free-form fisticuffs, or any other liminal spat or splanchnic altercation to be 204) found boiling over in a mercurially hyperkinetic bash of a nanocerebrally effectuated saturnalia, an unregulated, hypertensively vein-popping bacchanalia with mad screaming tirades of exophthalmic fulmination, I 205) seek the rather saner superficies of irenic asylum in the delectable holy grail, the signally sapid validation of a little kindly-aimed people-dismissing self-enhancement, namely calculated shunning and sundering dissociation from 206) such a sovereignly soft-headed, solemnly sophomoric and, sad to say, sensationally blockheaded perseveration in longsome, sappily snooty snits and snivelling stints of primitive hissy fits and behavioral extemporization by 207) redacting this relatively rebarbative rarefication; this compendium which obviously has no need for any truncation; this unhurried, wryly euphonious, oversized realization of stabbingly sardonic sass and incondite inculcation; this 208) model of a magniloquent but mannerly mantic jeremiad; this pressing suit of precipitously incremental incrimination; this opulent, if oppresively officious, mongrelized epopee; this awfully august, orphic ode of expository dilation upon the 209) mealy microsphere of serious modern so-called music and its flaccid mettle, considering all the fetters of its festering fettle, in mingy, saprogenically self-ensorcelled petty partisanship and nice-nelly soul-slaughtering internecine intoleration (and its 210) derisive and adversely prejudicial assignation to ivory-tower patronage and huffy hocus-pocus, in short, academic fraud through ritual sacralization by ungraciously inegalitarian strutting and stratification as it 211) volubly aids and abets its own brand of bottomless bunk, a rickety ramshackle racket sunk with gratuitous dissonance in an ear-slamming sham of smashing and clashing slatternly slathers, enshrining flagitious noise in mock legitimization as it 212) countenances collusion in the ghoulish undertaking of an enfeeblingly faddish fettish and toxic fixation on pointless atrocities of analytical pettifoging in musical crimes of vivisectional anatomization.  So if I 213) cavil and prate in a painful complaint, in a rapturous confusion of prosaic prolongation as I rag, rap, and rip, gibber and jaw 'til my tongue is raw, or if with breathless mime and injudiciously jovial gesticulation I seem to 214) gruffly gabble, grumble, gripe, and just plain grumpily grouse, cavalierly grandstanding in a garbled prodigality of turgid gasconade and ineptly sportive prolixity wrapped in spunky splurges of pointedly pyrotechnical peroration, or if 215) gone bananas, I rattle and prattle, accidentally pushing the battle bizarrely far beyond the pale in censurably vulgar communication of acutely creepy, cryingly curt, clodhoppingly churlish and catty, not to mention cruelly cudgeling, collateral castigation, or if I 216) stoop to mutter, putter and splutter, drably dabbling in doggerel, drooling and dribbling drafts of dim-witted drivel duly indicative of obfuscatory sybaritic stupor, implausible preoccupation, and a circus side-show bent for paramnesiac somnambulation, or if, 217) intemporately gregarious and gagably garrulous, I flip-flop, fake and fudge, fizzle, and flintily flout vibing and gibing by shrewdly flaunting flotsam in stammering swaggers of catachrestical intoxication making a 218) grammatical swamp, a mirthfully murky mire (of apocryphal ambages, an uncountable compilation not the least bit parsimonious in predatory pranks and roguish antics of fanatical argumentation) thus 219) deflecting this already digressive divertimento, this garden of perplexingly gongoristic esoterica, of impracticalities of sesquipedalian jugglery, of gingerly jesting and folly-filled jollification, from 220) weirdly wrought waxings of jocular jape to a jumble, a jungle, of jabbering tribulation through a cracked, crooked crucible of pneumatological quackery; a noxious nimiety of scarily scarifying execration; or if, 221) apparently non compos mentis, I seem to go a bit berserk shying pious brickbats of scathing adjudication by bitterly berating, betimes with a bit of bruising burlesque, our baleful bane of broad-minded barbarization, and if 222) lacking longanimity, I belabor loutish language and sluggardly slobberings of logorrheic lobotomization with misological bearings born of ideological bricolage, while panning sorry scenes of phraseological permutation, for instance, 223) quibbling in brumal blizzards of bloated blither and blabber, a bollix of squabbles blowing with brio in a botheration of bluntly blurted blats and bleats of bilious blue burble and beligerant blarney brimming with the unblenching exaltation of an 224) unbottled caboodle of Byzantine baloney in boringly barren babble; in the tarnishing tyrannization of very bumptious bobberies, barefaced bonhomous bosh and unblushing bluffs of Bunyanesque prevarication, or if, like a 225) batrachian Beelzebub, I bellow in vibrant verbalization and blast point blank at the blistering blitz of blatant bilge, or if bristling and bridling, I bray and bark at the burly brabble in lancinating barbs banking on bathetic exploitation while 226) blaringly bemoaning the boldly bodacious bodement of our banefully booze-besoden and bedazzled bamboozlement, in movingly morose and mawkishly maudlin moans and groans, and elegiac threnodies of baroque lamentation, or if I 227) gnash, bash and rashly lash the imperishable rehash, the obbligato of boisterously blasphemous incantation, while lambasting the bludgeoning barrage of blackguardly blatherskite in school-yard name-calling and coarse conversation, please 228) see, and kindly deem that neither astigmatic want, nor any other slightest degree of impugnable insufficiency, remains to be exposed of condign Comstockery, or of bows to benignantly butyraceous bowdlerization, but 229) rather that, though it be a bit fustily fuliginous, bulging with blackish broodings and, yes, fairly bursting as a vade mecum (as it were) of captious contrivance, pranks, gags and dunderheaded doings of daringly devious derivation, and 230) though it could be seen as a slightly obscure entanglement of feloniously elliptical, baiting and bribing blandishments in a big bulking bogey, a boneheaded boondoggle of nevertheless artfully, anfractuous articulation, yet, for 231) us lumpen pilgrims who go groggily groping like country bumpkins lost in the Land of the Philistines, this just might agreeably gruntle any grain of greed while vanquishing any vestigial need for expiation, and 232) even go so far as to educe the frangible augury, the sunny-bright atmosphere of burgeoning edulcoration; an auspicious aspect for the prospective amplification of its anesthetization against, or at least its attenuation of, the 233) ever ongoing pageant of sacerdotal protreptics in aphotic helotry to nomothetic haruspicy and those polymorphously hopping hobgoblins of prescriptive nagging and gorgonizing practices of classroom regimentation from those 234) Hunnish gerents, perps and grifters, who twisted our faces into forlorn grimaces of responsive sequacity (causing ruffles of real resentment and retorts riding on rolling ripples of breezily insolent, sorely scoffing subvocalization) all of which 235) continue to paint a funereal pall on approaching horizons where still haunt the undead antediluvian incubi of gaslighting overseers, and other would-be life butchers with all their indefeasibly repressive domination through 236) well-rewarded psychopathic martinets; egotistically avaricious avatars of their own repugnant delusion; poorly self-made, green-eyed, grisly guardians of graft; just more ministerial purveyors of ersatz education who, 237) knavishly insulted by precocious young talent, or any mysteriously nimble gift of inchoative genius, will, with unfeeling disclamation, paranoically proffer, in lieu of their teacherly solicitude, loving care and cultivation, only a 238) Brobdingnagian armamentarium of Machiavellian supression; in place of simple praise and endearing commendation, their furtive abuse of, and by means of, procrustean bureaucracy, slinky, snobby snubbery and sneering stultification all 239) coyly executed under a gamily guiltless guise of grandly Brahmanical poise and sniffy sanctimonious unction; the smarmy, darkly smiling visage of demonically cold-blooded burking and agile authoritarian strangulation; their 240) very own cankerous contribution to the horrible heft of history's hobnail jackboots, the stomping justification of ad hominem assault in the war of attrition waged in deep dank dungeons of dispiteous deprecation. 
GLOSSARY agonal attempts to allay any manneristic airs of agonistic atticism - when you are just trying to make a point, it really hurts that you have to try not to look like you are spreading malicious but convincingly authoritative lies foregoing shots at oracular calumniation - when you resist the urge to utter malicious lies with magisterial solemnity ardently avoiding rococo ornamentation - trying very hard not to make your lies any more elaborate or convoluted than they have to be (the mark of an honest liar) Merriam-Webster Dictionary acrid - very bitter and stinky tempestuous tide - a tidal wave of water, people, or ideas full fluviatile amplitude of self-disgust and disinclination - where the feeling of not enjoying your own company is flowing like a wild, raging river bodily mortifying self-flagellation - working toward spiritual purification by beating yourself on the back with tree branches (which might be one reason why spiritual impurity is so popular these days) Merriam-Webster Dictionary for socialization, wouldn't that be a sad succedaneum - in terms of early training for admittance to polite society, that choice is a poor substitute for intelligence; but on the other hand, it is more likely to prepare you for prison, or for membership in congress not easily identified by modest minimization - your humble efforts at self improvement are not noticable for their special quality of being so small Merriam-Webster Dictionary hammily niminy-piminy - always making a show of how effeminate you can be (as if you were a big, muscular, bald, heavily tatooed and bearded saloon bouncer trying to compete as one of the girls in a Miss Teen USA contest) disproportionately, purblindly prideful and prismatic - having a head too big for your hat, but too small for your ego and all that goes with it orgulously orotund - significantly plus-sized (like Henry VIII or William Howard Taft) inordinately overblown - it's either like a tempest in a tea-pot, or it was like the way you played your trombone in place of the cellist, who was sick, that time in the string quartet recital, Merriam-Webster Dictionary agnostic subjectivization - basing your opinions on feelings and emotions because you don't believe there's any scientific way to determine the truth pratfalling into potholes - tumbling head first into holes you didn't notice in the sidewalk paratactical mudpuddles of unsalvagability in encumbering equivocation - grammatical catastrophies that nobody can straighten out, which is their intended use when politicians want to say as little as possible with as many words as possible (which is as often as possible) Merriam-Webster Dictionary antsy and atwitter with omnidirectional fecundation - all excited with brand new, freshly stupid ideas pitched, head first, by demotic imprecision, into parlous, polysemous turgidities of tergiversation - by means of confusing embellishment and incorrectly used common figures of speech, you have fallen head over heels into the use of word patterns that could be called overblown gobbledygook Merriam-Webster Dictionary unsparing, rip-roaring rumble, a rollicking rampage - having a wonderful time, pillaging and plundering your way through people's minds froward free-for-all, a brawl of free-form fisticuffs - like a drunken pie fight in a saloon where not only pies are flying, but also fists, chairs and tables; or the reason we try to avoid any contention in adult Sunday School class so the Bishop doesn't have to come in with his gun and shooting bullets into the ceiling liminal spat or splanchnic altercation - like a normal company staff meeting where people are mindlessly hitting each other instead of discussing things Merriam-Webster Dictionary bash of a nanocerebrally effectuated saturnalia - a good time had by all, brought about by a person whose prefrontal cortex must be virtually non-functional, as I'm sure would describe all the many people who disagree with me politically unregulated, hypertensively vein-popping bacchanalia with mad screaming tirades of exophthalmic fulmination - hysterical fits of anger, where the veins in your forehead swell outward and your eyes pop out, and suddenly you remember that this friendly discussion about God's love is being broadcast on national TV Merriam-Webster Dictionary delectable holy grail - the most desirable and important prize to be sought after signally sapid validation - where the idea that maybe you're not so crazy after all doesn't seem so crazy after all little-kindly aimed people-dismissing self-enhancement - cutting out of your life certain people whose presence is destroying you (but remember, this does not mean everybody you know); also the popular sport of crushing people to make yourself look better calculated shunning and sundering dissociation - systematically destroying your social life by finding friends to stay completely away from Merriam-Webster Dictionary solemnly sophomoric - where you think your worldly experience is worth its weight in gold, but it really doesn't even weigh as much as the paper it's written sensationally blockheaded perseveration - where you never know when to let it go, or pack it in, or knock it off, or give it up, or get lost, or take a hike, or quit, or stop, or cease, or desist, or refrain, or retire, or withdraw, or retreat, or . . . you get the idea longsome, sappily snooty snits and snivelling stints of primitive hissy fits and behavioral extemporization - setting a bad example, or if you prefer, setting a good example of how to be a bad example Merriam-Webster Dictionary compendium - a complete list truncation - that which would improve many books, plays, speeches, poems and pieces of music: namely, a little delicate trimming with the proverbial meat ax wryly euphonious - sounding good to the ear after your infusions of clever humor would make anything sound good realization of stabbingly sardonic sass - the things you actually say, rather than just imagine, when you talk back to a superior with more venom and disgust than you would ever use if that person could actually hear you incondite inculcation - where you try to teach an idea through the principle of repetition, repeating it over and over again (which would be a good method if you could keep from forgetting what you said) Merriam-Webster Dictionary pressing suit of precipitously incremental incrimination - your urgent list of complaints against a person, styled so that each item makes him look worse than the previous one opulent, if oppresively officious, mongrelized epopee - a big, fancy poem, with no internal unity, presuming to tell people what to do, which they would find highly offensive if they could understand all the big words in it awfully august, orphic ode of expository dilation - a majestic poem written by someone who must be high on drugs because he thinks he has all the answers to life's deepest questions, such as: Do babies start out knowing more than we do, and by the time they learn how to talk, they've forgotten all of it? Merriam-Webster Dictionary serious modern so-called music - new classical music which is taken very seriously by its composers and sponsors, but not so much by those who are bribed to play it, and not at all by lovers of real music who were tricked into listening to it flaccid mettle, considering all the fetters of its festering fettle - it stinks because it is rotting (The best way to keep ugly new music in finest flowering fettle is to bury it in the earth, keep it soaking wet, and see if anything grows out of it.) mingy, saprogenically self-ensorcelled petty of partisanship - where hypnotizing yourself into self-serving support for "the cause" only shows that your brain has become a gelatinous heap of intellectual mush and moral corruption nice-nelly soul-slaughtering internecine intoleration - where people in the office, using all manner of polite political correctness, murder everyone's spirit through their devious manipulations for the advancement of their own jobs Merriam-Webster Dictionary ivory-tower patronage - backing and support from people who cannot avoid being insulated from the sensibilities of normal people because they are distracted from life on planet earth by thinking nothing but esoteric, theoretical and completely useless thoughts huffy hocus-pocus - ways to be arrogantly deceitful academic fraud through ritual sacralization by ungraciously inegalitarian strutting and stratification - where some teachers have turned themselves into pompous professorial propogandists who make sacred the traditional means of intellectual intimidation through smoke and mirrors, show business tricks, and the manneristic pretense of lofty disdain, all in an integrated strategy to inspire fear and loathing in their students so they won't ask too many time-consuming questions and thus learn things Merriam-Webster Dictionary rickety ramshackle racket sunk with gratuitous dissonance - the music of those intellectual misfits who wrongly think their compositions are made relevent by being ugly ear-slamming sham of smashing and clashing slatternly slathers - a deafening hoax of chaotic noise called modern music, perpetrated against innocent concert goers enshrining flagitious noise in mock legitimization - where, by means that happen to smell as fragrant as an unrefrigerated fish market in the desert, you try to officially advocate a place for bad music in polite society Merriam-Webster Dictionary sickly salable - can be easily sold as long as the buyers are out of their minds enfeeblingly faddish fettish and toxic fixation - a dangerous obsession based less on the object than on its popularity pointless atrocities of analytical pettifoging - horrible abominations of legalistic carping, cavilling, and quibbling over trifles, musical crimes of vivisectional anatomization - where intellectual analysis destroys the life in a piece of music, as would performing an autopsy before the subject is dead Merriam-Webster Dictionary rapturous confusion of prosaic prolongation - a complete festival of wrong choices based on your inability to think straight rag, rap, and rip, gibber and jaw 'til my tongue is raw - saying more than you need to breathless mime and injudiciously jovial gesticulation - where you've run out of breath, so you try to express yourself using wild gestures with your hands that run the risk of accidentally sticking your finger up somebody's nose Merriam-Webster Dictionary cavalierly grandstanding in a garbled prodigality of turgid gasconade - doing so much button-busting boasting that you can't keep your story straight or your shirt buttoned ineptly sportive prolixity - where you are very clumsy at making recreation out of turning terse commentary into tediously long-winded diatribes and rambling harangues of inflated bombast and protracted verbosity (and whoever can say the least by using the most words wins) spunky splurges of pointedly pyrotechnical peroration - where you throw caution to the wind and put real fireworks into your sportive prolixity (see previous) Merriam-Webster Dictionary bizarrely far beyond the pale - preposterously past the limits of decency and sanity, and whatever is otherwise outrageously inexcusable censurably vulgar communication - things you say at your own dinner table for which, in some countries, you would be immediately shot, but for which, in other countries, you would be put on television, given obscenely immense piles of money, and elected president acutely creepy, cryingly curt, clodhoppingly churlish and catty, not to mention cruelly cudgeling, collateral castigation - the unforgivably nasty things you say to someone, but it's all in the sunny, fun-loving spirit of trying to beat them over the head with a club of words. Besides, once the ball started rolling, it couldn't be stopped from doing more damage than it was supposed to. Sorry about that. Merriam-Webster Dictionary drably dabbling in doggerel - the way most of us write poetry (although some of us should try dabbling a bit more drably) drooling and dribbling drafts of dim-witted drivel - saying things of limited import in a confused manner suggestive of drooling like a baby duly indicative of obfuscatory sybaritic stupor - where it seems like you've been gratifying your bodily appetites to the point where you've become too confused to further enjoy your life of hell-bent hedonism implausible preoccupation - a most unlikely consuming interest circus side-show bent for paramnesiac somnambulation - proving you belong in a traveling circus, with your weird tendency to walk around in your sleep with no memory of anything you've done, whether it be buying an elephant from an Indian elephant dealer, or putting on clown make-up with permanent magic markers, or mailing a scathing letter to your boss threatening legal action over his affair with your young daughter Merriam-Webster Dictionary flip-flop, fake and fudge, fizzle, and flintily flout - the way politicians suddenly reverse their opinions solely for graft or political advantage, showing authoritarian contempt for the voters who were counting on them for help and support vibing and gibing by shrewdly flaunting flotsam - as when the President increases his approval ratings by throwing big pies, as it were, of political nonsense into the public's face unsteady streaks and stammering swaggers of catachrestical intoxication - when you start speaking and get so distracted by the sound of your own voice that you forget what you were saying Merriam-Webster Dictionary of apocryphal ambages, an uncountable compilation not the least bit parsimonious in predatory pranks and roguish antics of fanatical argumentation - when, as your last resort in trying not to get locked up again in that rubber room, you talk in circles and try to confuse everyone with your wacky word games Merriam-Webster Dictionary garden of perplexingly gongoristic esoterica - a richly cultivated manner of speaking which makes you sound as if you've been sleeping for 300 years and you've wakened up using language so antiquated that nobody can understand you (a good ploy for getting excused from jury duty) impracticalities of sesquipedalian jugglery - where you use bigger words than you can handle correctly, but you get away with it because nobody else knows what they mean either gingerly jesting and folly-filled jollification - making a fool of yourself by saying things you don't really mean, but all in good fun (as long as you don't get yourself arrested) Merriam-Webster Dictionary jumble, a jungle, of jabbering tribulation - your attempt to irritate us with babblings so unintelligible that, even if we could hear them, we still wouldn't understand them, and if we could understand them, we would wish we couldn't hear them cracked, crooked crucible of pneumatological quackery - the point where your many ignorant references to the supernatural become useful in testing our preference for either burning you at the stake or throwing pies in your face noxious nimiety of scarily scarifying execration - a morally corrupting excess of soul-shredding insults Merriam-Webster Dictionary a bit berserk shying pious brickbats of scathing adjudication - going slightly overboard making remarks which, at first, might seem uncomplimentary but when you think about it, they are downright insulting bitterly berating, betimes with a bit of bruising burlesque, our baleful bane of broad-minded barbarization - mocking and otherwise attacking with gusto the intellectual pride with which we keep our minds so open that our brains fall out Merriam-Webster Dictionary belabor loutish language - like when you complain that your pastor seems to be yelling at the top of his lungs and saying things that make no sense, every time you come to church drunk sluggardly slobberings of logorrheic lobotomization - the unrestrained flow of such nonsensical verbosity that listening to it actually makes your brain shrink misological bearings born of ideological bricolage - irrational words coming out of your mouth which convince us that your personal philosophy is based on whatever feels good at the moment panning - severely criticizing (not unlike hitting someone over the head with a frying pan) sorry scenes of phraseological permutation - the regrettable depths to which people have taken their misuse of the English language Merriam-Webster Dictionary bollix of squabbles blowing with brio - noisy arguments which don't amount to much, but feel like a harsh wind in your face (probably because you are standing nose to nose with the person you're arguing with) botheration of bluntly blurted blats and bleats of bilious blue burble - angry profanities and other abusive expressions which drunks who get scrappy, as opposed to the ones who get sappy or happy, enjoy yelling at the judge as they are being carried out of the courtroom beligerant blarney brimming with the unblenching exaltation - congratulating yourself in a way that makes people want to pound vigorously upon your head and torso Merriam-Webster Dictionary boringly barren babble - drearily drooling drivel tarnishing tyrannization of very bumptious bobberies - that crushing feeling you get when you become engulfed in other people's private uproars (like when you witness a murder and the Mafia is out to get you, or you walk past a private pie fight and you accidentally get hit, and the pie is your favorite flavor so you join in, hoping to get hit a few more times) barefaced bonhomous bosh - the good-natured foolishness you are willing to engage in without wearing a paper bag over your head unblushing bluffs of Bunyanesque prevarication - these are the whoppers and tall tales which you tell without ambarrassment, and which are so huge that they rival the ones told in the annals of American folklore about Paul Bunyan and Babe, his blue ox Merriam-Webster Dictionary bellow in vibrant verbalization and blast point blank at the blistering blitz of blatant bilge - to yell, right into someone's face with a pointed barage full of colorful language bristling and bridling - feeling angry enough to burst into flames by spontaneous combustion bray and bark at the burly brabble in lancinating barbs banking on bathetic exploitation - yell and carry on against noisy chatter, thereby creating more noisy chatter, and filling it with cutting remarks to manipulate people's feelings Merriam-Webster Dictionary movingly morose and mawkishly maudlin moans and groans - mourning so pathetically and so loudly that it makes others want to cry - but not in sympathy elegiac threnodies of baroque lamentation - sorrowful songs and flamboyant wailing (how you normally react when your child goes off to his first day at school) Merriam-Webster Dictionary imperishable rehash - what you yell back to the police, over and over again, while they're chasing you obbligato of boisterously blasphemous incantation - as if part of a magic ritual chant, the never-ending stream of tumultuous profanity destroying the spiritual sensitivities of young people as they prepare to save the world from the mess their parents have made lambasting the bludgeoning barrage of blackguardly blatherskite - attacking the vigorous outpouring of abusive claptrap that feels like it's beating our brains into mush Merriam-Webster Dictionary astigmatic want - where you need a particular thing right now because you were too short-sighted to have provided it for yourself ahead of time (for example, teenagers not being able to buy their own cars because when they were babies they never thought about saving their money) slightest degree of impugnable insufficiency - a minor short-coming, but it's still your fault condign Comstockery - strict moralistic censorship where it's needed bows to benignantly butyraceous bowdlerization - when in a sneaky manner so as not to get yourself shot or beaten up, and with only the best of intentions, you remove all the naughty parts from books, magazines, musicals, movies, plays, and spoken language Merriam-Webster Dictionary bulging with blackish broodings - full of gloom, doom and despair vade mecum - Latin for "handy dandy ready-reference book" as it were - King's English for "in a manner of speaking" (though not so much in days of yore when the King of England only spoke German) captious contrivance - some action you have carefully planned out as a fun way to make people angry (like slurping your soup, or invading a country) dunderheaded doings of daringly devious derivation - really dumb things you do just to be different Merriam-Webster Dictionary big bulking bogey - something imaginary that frightens you, like a gigantic blinking eyeball sitting on your front lawn boneheaded boondoggle - what congress is creating at any given time nevertheless artfully, anfractuous articulation - your words which, while they sound so complex and beautiful, leave us utterly confused Merriam-Webster Dictionary groggily groping like country bumpkins lost in the Land of the Philistines - how the executive boards of ballet companies, symphony orchestras, and art museums function in their little worlds of artless and brainless materialism agreeably gruntle any grain of greed - to happily satisfy your most minute, rapaciously covetous desire for more stuff (what Santa Claus will do if you stay off his naughty list) vanquishing any vestigial need for expiation - getting rid of any left-over desires to come clean and make up for what you did Merriam-Webster Dictionary burgeoning edulcoration - an ever increasing influence that gradually softens the effect of things (like strongly perfumed and vitamin-fortified diesel exhaust, or having cars, trucks, and streets all made of soft rubber, or pass federal law requiring that everyone say "please" and "thank you" even during bank robberies and Mafia hits auspicious aspect for the prospective amplification of its anesthetization - a basis for hoping that something might eventually make us less aware of what's really happening attenuation - reducing the problem Merriam-Webster Dictionary aphotic helotry to nomothetic haruspicy - the intellectual darkness that it takes for us to use methods of scientific discovery that are on a par with ancient Roman predictions which were based on inspections of fresh animal guts polymorphously hopping hobgoblins - disturbing reminders of things you'd rather forget, and they keep showing up in different forms prescriptive nagging - constantly being told "Do it this way because that's how we've always done it" gorgonizing practices of classroom regimentation - standard teaching methods that make everyone, including teachers, forget how to think for themselves Merriam-Webster Dictionary perps and grifters - thieves, embezzlers, corporate CEO's, failed assassins, and government officials who receive pay for services not rendered forlorn grimaces of responsive sequacity - how you use your face to express the misery of being someone else's slave, or of having to pay taxes ruffles of real resentment and retorts riding on rolling ripples of breezily insolent, sorely scoffing subvocalization - the nasty comments of repressed indignation you mutter under your breath Merriam-Webster Dictionary approaching horizons, where still haunt the undead antediluvian incubi - where things that seem to be just beyond your experience continue to give you the heebie-jeebies because they're getting closer, which might explain the hours you spend in a fetal position under the kitchen sink gaslighting overseers, and other would-be life butchers - those instructors, employers and supervisors who managed to make you think you didn't have enough intelligence or talent to do your job, to the point where you doubted your own sanity; and other people just like them who did more harm than good, like Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin and Attila the Hun indefeasibly repressive domination - where they beat you down and remove your brain (without anesthetic) Merriam-Webster Dictionary egotistically avaricious avatars of their own repugnant delusion - people who think too highly of themselves and have become personal embodiments, the pathetic living results, of their own offensive ideas green-eyed, grisly guardians of graft - greedy protectors of corruption who are always trying to grab a bigger piece of the action for themselves, at the expense of others ministerial purveyors of ersatz education - teachers who think they are qualified to teach simply because they went to college and got a degree, and then had many years of experience teaching without getting beaten up or shot despite the way they taught Merriam-Webster Dictionary mysteriously nimble gift of inchoative genius - exceptional mental capacity that grows faster than anyone could have predicted disclamation - something that serves to renounce, reject, deny or disavow paranoically proffer, in lieu of their teacherly solicitude, loving care and cultivation - where they give as little of themselves as they can get away with, instead of the levels of personal investment one would expect from teachers, mentors and parents, all as if their first concern is how much harm the giving might cause them Merriam-Webster Dictionary endearing commendation - kind words of support that generate love and loyalty furtive abuse of, and by means of, procrustean bureaucracy - the inhumane things you are able to do to others by simply following fixed rules without nuance or judgment, which is how you manage to completely corrupt them slinky, snobby snubbery - where, instead of accepting, with gracious humility, what you think is your superiority over someone else, you quietly ignore them (not to be confused with slinky snotty shrubbery which is what's left when you quietly blow your nose into the bushes) sneering stultification - smiling at someone so scornfully that they begin to feel they might do more for humanity by jumping off a cliff Merriam-Webster Dictionary gamily guiltless guise - an unwholsomely misleading appearance of human decency Brahmanical poise - when your serenity can't be disturbed or ruffled because you are so crème de la crème, so beau monde, so elite, so intelligently refined, and so offensively snobbish sniffy sanctimonious unction - where, in haughty disdain, you think you're the cat's pajamas looking all holy and full of righteous concern for others smarmy, darkly smiling visage of demonically cold-blooded burking - the happy face you attach to the horrible deeds by which you get rid of someone; like a clown who frightens people to death agile authoritarian strangulation - where someone skillfully uses their ill-gotten authority to squeeze the life out of you Merriam-Webster Dictionary ad hominem assault - where instead of arguing against a person's ideas, you call him names, or impugn the reputation of his parents, perhaps implying that he had none war of attrition waged in deep dank dungeons of dispiteous deprecation - the process by which the cruel ways of the world cause good people to feel worthless and give up Merriam-Webster Dictionary 
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