Monday, May 9, 2022

Alan Moore's Jerusalem: Book 3: Vernall's Inquest: Round the Bend: Line 19

Line 19: "He'd met with Cowsgrope the Invincible who had confleshed to scraping the odd barnacle in nineteen nundread-for, the year that Orgy-porgy-puttin-pie was farst consceptered."

Non-Lucy-Lips Version: "Her father James had met with Cowsgrope the Invincible who had confessed to 'scraping the odd barnacle' in 1904, the year that Giorgio was conceived."

"Cowsgrope the Invincible"
No clue who this might be but assuredly a past lover of Nora's and my next Dungeons and Dragons character. The "Cowsgrope" because Nora has been compared numerous times to a cow by Lucia and the "grope" to show that this person shared some sexual liaison with Nora. But why Invincible?!

"confleshed"
Confessed merged with fleshed, as in the confession was one of a sexual nature.

"scraping the odd barnacle"
Nora's last name was Barnacle so this is a confession of having been intimate with Nora.

"nineteen nundread-for"
The incident took place in 1904. But it is unknown when James met with Cowsgrope or when the letter was sent to Nora. So the letter probably arrived sometime when the children where old enough to understand the consternation it caused Nora, being an accusation of infidelity from her husband. "Nundread-for"? I guess because nuns dread coitus?

"Orgy-porgy-puttin-pie"
Giorgio with acknowledgment that his conception is unclear, being that Nora had a whole orgy of lovers at the time (two being an orgy in 1904). Georgie-peorgie-pudding-and-pie is a kid's rhyme but done dirty in this case by adding "orgy" and "puttin-pie" which is a slang term for doing it. You know, putting the penis inside the vagina.

"farst consceptered."
This is a fart joke followed by a dick joke, isn't it?! "Farst" probably means something like Giorgio was conceived far away and also first and maybe it was essentially a farce because look at what he's been doing to his ten year old sister. And "consceptered" is a dick joke because it has "scepter" shoved into conceived. At least it's probably meant to be conceived even if "scepter" doesn't really fit too well in that word. Maybe like how James' scepter might not have fit into the odd barnacle in the way he thought because Cowsgrope's scepter was all up in there.

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