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dead body n.v. 1. Narrative space, defined by fucking idiots. 2. A state of future being, devoid of consciousness; a potentiality of any sort, usually dreadful. 3. A dramatical totem of immense popularity, signaling the engagement of a puzzle, a journey or a jolly romp, and otherwise initiating a series of elaborate narrative shake-downs.
Usage
- "Over my dead body are they going to make me go back."
- "I knew he was having dreams, nightmares," Lisset said. "He would wake up at night really sweaty. When I popped around the next day for a few drinks, he had become a dead body. I can't explain it."
Extrapolation
- The dead body just sat there. A weight on top of the world. No past, no future; just a dead constant present - one of the lucky ones.
- The dead body was an AA member since Stimes' day. The dead body knew Dutch, Dutch did not know the dead body. AA was the connection - but there was no link - and the dead body enjoyed the new found life as a dead body. It's not such a bad job after all but the foie gras reeks.
- The dead body used to sing children's songs for a living. Spaghetti Worm was a popular tune among 3 year olds and earned the dead body honors among peers. The dead body could reflect on this and smile. But the dead body was not the dead body - rather "some Accidental Associationalism mind bender" (Johnson, p. 13) - the dead weight of the world is upon us. There may be no forgiving this time around.
- Dutch probed further back in time and remembered a favorite poem he used to sing in choir school:
- Lo and behold the Father
- of Righteous Wrongdoings
- Answers our darkest Prayers
- Lo and behold the Mother
- of Wrongful Righteousness....
- (etc)
See Also
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Desiderata
Jonathan Trenchwheat was celebrated in his High School Yearbook as "Most Likely To Animate A Dead Body."
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