The work shows us how it is now, with the nostalgia of the musee oddified by idiosyncratic clutter from Toothy the Tooth to Asteroids.

these words, thus woven into song

Killing Noe Murder: Briefly Discourst in Three Quæstions

For the hocus-pocussers, choice between alternative analyses was a matter of mere personal taste and certainly not of correct versus incorrect; there was no ‘right answer’, so it was pointless to worry about cases such as the one cited.[…]One suspects that the hocus-pocussers may have been happy enough to regard linguistic descriptions as true so long as the descriptive techniques worked unproblematically, and that they simply held the hocus-pocus position in reserve to be used if they encountered an impasse such as the Chinese case described above.