THE GLADE
OF OLD DISTURBING
WORDS.
In this shady corner of Joe's Gloomy Spot can be found
a small, overgrown garden, the paths of which are lined with stones. The
stones are highly irregular in both size and shape, some resembling chunks
of industrial debris, some cracked fragments of old tombs, some intricately
eroded Chinese Philosophers' Stones. Of course, some just look like rocks.
In any event, in a manner similar to those outrageously overpriced river
rocks one sometimes sees at new age or inspsirational stores, the ones
engraved with words like joy or growth or happiness,
each of the worn stones in the Glade is carved with notable former Disturbing
Word of the Fortnight.
Meandering along the paths of the garden leads
to the following:
Ampallang
Heteroscedasticity
Unemployment
McCrabCakes
Half-Mauled
Postmodernist
Castrato
Syzygy
Teratology
Disneyfication
Grown-Up
Inter-LATA
Amorphophallus
Deophagy
Casablanca (1998, starring
Arnold Schwartzenegger and Demi Moore)
Olestra
Howzit
Eschatological
Gynecomastia
Phlegm
Evaginate
Millenium
Phlebotomist
Obsoleting
Tofu Cheesecake
Puce
Enucleate
Panspermia
Orchid
Sthenic
Antimacassar
Aspic
Seminal
Candiru
Trepanation
Latrodectism
Yonic
and Monocausotaxophilia.
From here, paths lead back
to the rest of the Gloomy Spot, or up the hill to the Great
Hall.
Alternatively, for those interested in the Garden Glade,
and how Joe manages to keep it so intensely bleak, I recommend leaving
the Gloomy Spot, and visiting.