I still can get off with a pound of bunk and pretend it's some Runtz

You kippers—no guts and two faces—are only strong under the armpits... What about the east of Suez caper, eh?

new monastic people

Weird fiction is, after all, notoriously typified by the presence of entities so radically different from normality that they are, to borrow a characteristic phrase from H. P. Lovecraft, “impossible to describe” (Lovecraft 2014: 404).