An explanation or definition of an obscure word in a text.
Words populate a fantastically complicated system of obfuscation, a system in which no word is as obscure as the unutterable, which is itself no word at all. A purity of expression exists, I believe, in the washroom of consciousness that huddles under the weight of centuries of structured language. Here there are no symbols and no cyphers, only the blunt mettle of human animals.
