Conscious: Miscellaneous Glossary

Salt on the earth

a curse to inhabitation; spreading salt on earth removes nutrients from soil and prevents vegetation

Jabberwocky- Lewis Carroll

This nonsense poem is found in the 1871 novel Through the Looking Glass, the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The poem maintains the functions of most structural words of English language (prepositions, conjunctions, etc.) and fills in the rest of the slots with nonsense words. This creates a narrative that can be interpreted by the reader.

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!

He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
  Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
  He chortled in his joy.

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
  Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
  And the mome raths outgrabe.

The jabberwock is a monster with the body of a dragon, a whiskered, fish-like head, insectile antennae and a pair of talon-like hands on both its arms and its wings.

Hamlet, Act III Scene 4

In this scene the Queen, Hamlet's mother, is confronting him about his suspicious behavior in the wake of her recent marriage to her late husband's brother. In line 9 she is claiming that Hamlet's behavior is shameful to his father's memory.

POLONIUS

1 'A will come straight. Look you lay home to him:

2 Tell him his pranks have been too broad to bear with,

3 And that your grace hath screen'd and stood between

4 Much heat and him. I'll sconce me even here.

5 Pray you, be round with him.

HAMLET (Within.)

5 Mother, mother, mother!

QUEEN

6 I'll warrant you, fear me not:

7 Withdraw, I hear him coming.

[Polonius hides behind the arras.]

Enter Hamlet. Full Summary

HAMLET

8 Now, mother, what's the matter?

QUEEN

9 Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended.

HAMLET

10 Mother, you have my father much offended.

QUEEN

11 Come, come, you answer with an idle tongue.

HAMLET

12 Go, go, you question with a wicked tongue.

"Thou hast your mother much ooooooofffffennnded" -Page 2, Conscious

Ophelia

Love interest of Hamlet and one of the only female characters in the play. She dies after falling into a river.

Johnny Truant

the main character from Mark Danielewski's novel, House of Leaves. The story shows Johnny's reality breaking down after he discovers the manuscript to an unmade documentary film.

The novel has very creative formatting, similar to that of Conscious.

I Love Lucy (1951)

Full episodes on Hulu

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Adam and Eve, the "apple of knowledge," and the flaming sword of Eden

Genesis 2-3

15And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

16And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

17But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

1Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which theLord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

2And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:

3But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

4And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

5For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

6And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

7And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

8And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.

9And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?

10And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.

11And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

12And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

13And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

14And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

15And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

16Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

17And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

18Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

20And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

21Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

22And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

23Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

24So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.