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we might have to create a scenario with a history that validates such a term, but still, that's what
imaginations are paid to do. A good example of the stretchability of language is palindromist
Lewis Carrol's poem, Jabberwocky, where many "Frankensteined" words tell a story, which,
though hazy and without specifics, still leaves some type of image in the mind of the reader.
According to the aforementioned palindrome, "Even Eve's bacon drawer did nastify
names, organs, a tub, straps." So Eve's bacon drawer made these four categories nasty; however,
at this point, one might ask oneself, "what is a bacon drawer?" Here I will go out on the ever so
shaky limb of contextual interpretation. First there is the obvious literal translation: a drawer that
contains bacon. The mind can easily bridge the manner in which a bacon drawer might "nastify"
tangible objects, like organs, a tub, and straps, but how can something concrete like a bacon
drawer nastify something as intangible as a name? This is the point where the literal
interpretation of "bacon drawer" might fall through thin ice. In the mind's obsessive egg-hunt for
meaning, it may apply a more figurative meaning to "bacon drawer." Now, I interpret that
"bacon drawer" could be used as another name for the vagina, hence, "Even Eve's bacon drawer
did nastify names, organs, a tub, straps," makes more acceptable sense, at least in my own mind,
because a vagina can be said to nastify names in the sense that the reputations behind the names
become marred ... and, of course, a vagina can physically nastify the concrete entities: organs
(musical and/or biological), a tub, and straps. This all makes sense to me; I can imagine a
depraved scene including Eve and whatever sordid things her bacon drawer did to nastify the
seemingly normal (at least according to my interpretation of this context) sexual objects-
organs, straps, a tub - which in turn "nastifies" the reputations of the involved names (people).
At this point in the interpretive process, the palindrome has given way to neologism, an
occurrence common in palindromy, where " ... the limits of what might pass for acceptable14
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McConnell, Michael Constantine. Outer Reaches of the Palindrome, thesis, December 2003; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4407/m1/17/: accessed May 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .