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SPHINCTER (sfĭngk tər) n. 1. The Portal of Human Wisdom. 2. The door which unleashes the best Humanity has to offer.

O my Mother she’s in Mexico My Father he’s in France My candle’s in my handle And my dandle’s in my pants. I’ll eat my slop and smack my lips And feed the festooning farce, And soon I’ll croon a luscious tune And I’ll croon it with me arse. O some say there’s gods atop of the world And demons down below, But that whores in France don’t wear no pants Is all humans need to know.

Truth-seeking pundits may say That math is the only way But the gauche and monotonous Truth it has gotten us Is merely that A = A

ELECTION (ĭ lĕk shən) n. 1. Ritual in which the human populace votes for one party disguised behind two names. 2. The opportunity to vote for a human freely chosen by a corporate interest. Yep.

If humans are but dim transparencies dreaming of gods with the brains of gods for a bed, then dreams into dreams converge in formless vagaries. For who is then dreaming who, gods or men, or is there yet another dreamer dreaming them?

COMEDIAN (kə mē dē ən) n. A rectum with personality which excretes paradox. See Humorist; Joke.

CIRCUMCISION (sûr kəm sĭ zhən) n. Suave term humans employ to describe the ritual mutilation of male infants.

CHILD SACRIFICE (chīld să krə fīs) n. Performed routinely by every human culture, presently under the guise of herding eighteen-year-olds and mind-controlling them to fight to the death in corporate wars. See Soldier.

ANTHEM, NATIONAL (ăn thəm) n. An insipid, contentless piece of Muzak used to inspire and hypnotize humans into pledging sentimental allegiance to the mother group and kill on command its designated enemies.

"NOTE BY LILITH: Since I have worked ceaselessly under Zyk’s mandate to complete this book before the Invasion date, I am compelled by the Truth of Evil to abrogate and renounce Mephis Tophiel’s Opinion. Male or female Demons, of course, are equally evil in Demonhood; the reviling of female energy reflects the Insecure Exclusivity of male-dominated Hell."