The first volume in “The Encyclopedia” series, this lexical parody acts as a sometimes silly, frequently clever, and always entertaining spoof on the epistemological aspiration towards comprehensive understanding. Instead, this black-and-white paperback offers textual and visual explanations of highly irregular length for words from A to the beginnings of B. Some of these descriptions are curt, (e.g., the definition for “abduct”: “I hope that I am never abducted.”), others are extended (“astrology” goes into the proclivities of each sign), a handful are photos, several are sketches, a few are haikus, many are thoroughly fabricated fibs, multiple are personal stories (relevant to their attached words by varying degrees of tangentiality) — and almost all do little by way of literal elucidation.
Perfect(-bound!) to whip out for impromptu counterfacts and to show off your extensive (indeed, encyclopedic) alternative knowledge, this piece of sensibly nonsensical literature is a trustworthy advisor for eccentric erudition.