She overdosed on cocaine.

[flowers] that never fade

Under deviant vocabulary we include “verbing” of nouns (He tricycled away), and perhaps “massifying” of count nouns and “countifying” of mass nouns. (Note that the preceding sentence itself contains instances of deviant vocabulary in scare quotes.) “Massifying” and “countifying” are illustrated respectively by A year ago they started digging the hole for his house; A year later, there's still more hole than house; and How many orange juice will that give us?.

The academic I already knew by reputation; they went by the mononym Farah and were one of the foremost authorities on Ilari poetry.