NOTES
1. Perhaps too tentative a pentameter.
2. What else is there to do here? The other patrons of this fine establishment share neither my interests nor my temperaments. Were I to awaken a vague interest in squidology amongst the general populace, I might take solace in lectures or even idle conversations during the blank hours, but, alas, this is not to be.
3. I believe my morelean father was, at the time of his demise, working on just such a theory. Perhaps this explains his own morbid interest in the abandoned squidmills. Unfortunately, he did not have the background in squidology necessary to develop his theory.
4. During the rule of the Cappans, the gray caps had not yet perfected this system and the city had not become as dependent on squid flesh. Why, it may be that the gray caps have worked to make squid meat more succulent to us and therefore more addictive.
BIBLIOGRAPHY (INTERMITTENTLY ANNOTATED)
This bibliography allows the reader to follow up on the subject matter set out in my monograph. Many of these books I conjure whole from memory, the originals having haunted the shelves of my long-abandoned childhood library. (Thus this bibliography serves as a kind of memorial to the one saving grace of my youth.) As for the question of publication dates, even those books found in the pathetic library I currently have access to are likely to be hopelessly antiquated editions. Most of these tomes are either so common or so rare as to make the question of time moot, even if I could set out the dates with anything approaching consistency. Where necessary, I have placed my own comments about a particular book in parentheses following the bibliographical information, in the hopes that my added insight will be of some small value.
Absence, Thrasher T., Squid Camouflage: What Are They Try ing to Hide? Squid Mill Library Press.
Aldrich,Clyde, Squid? Distant Bells Press.
Allans, John, The Hoegbotton Guide to Nymphomania, Hoegbotton & Sons Press.
Alsop,Seymour, Ammonia Among Old Beaks: Essays and Idylls of a Squid Lover, Dyfold Press.
(Precise in its data yet utterly false in its conclusions.)
Anon, The Hoegbotton Book of Absurd Synonyms, Hoegbotton & Sons.
Anon, The Hoegbotton Book of Obscure Insults, Hoegbotton & Sons.
Anon, The Hoegbotton Guide to Psychological Terminology, Hoegbotton & Sons Press.
Babbit, Cynthia, A Child’s Coloring Book of Squid, Featuring Three Imaginary Ones, Libyrinth Press.
Bamardot, Allison, The Squidularch and His Watery World, Nicea Publishers.
(An interesting argument for a crude form of squid government.) Batton, Sarah, ed., Squid Sightings Magazine, Vols. 1–23, Renegade Mollusk Press.
Bender, Voss, “A Refutation of the Claim that Certain of My Operas Have Been Aided by Squid-Written Arias,” Ambergris Drama Digest, Vol. 234, No. 12, Front Row Publications.
(Would that they had been.)
Bender, Voss, Bender for RiversideReading, Frankwrithe & Lewden.
Bender, Voss, Libretto with Squid, Frankwrithe & Lewden.
Bentinck, Bargin, The Library of Robert Quilclass="underline" An Instance of Squidophilia, Borges Bookstore Publishing.
(Bentinck’s library far exceeded that of my parents, especially in the area of squid-related books. It is one of the great tragedies of my life that I have been unable to visit it. If I ever do, it will blissfully eclipse memories of my own red-spined volumes.)
Blade, Jeremy, The Hoegbotton Guide to Oikomania, Hoegbotton & Sons Press.
Blei, Frank, “Invasive Foreign Squid: The Visitors That Never Leave,” The Morrow Wildlife Quarterly, Vol. 400, No. 4, Mandible & Crossclaw.
Bordman, Ann K., Squidopolis, Buzz Press.
(A novel, this book is, in fictional form, the twin to my nonfiction and, lacking my purpling prose, my better half.)
Brecht, Richard, Jr ., Jackaclock Squidulous: The Life of a Squid Boxer, Savor Press.
Breitenbach, Joseph A., ed., The Hoegbotton Guide to Common Cephalopod Mannerisms (chapbook), Hoegbotton & Sons.
Breitenbach, Joseph A., “Caudal Fin Exercises You Can Do at Home,” published in The Amateur Squidologist, Vol. 19, Issue 7, Ambergris Squidology Society.
(Quite useful — these exercises do indeed strengthen the arms.)
Breitenbach, Joseph A., ed., Hoegbotton & Sons Parts Catalog for Squid-Grade Freshwater Filters, Hoegbotton & Sons.
Breitenbach, Joseph A., Mating Rituals of the Freshwater Squid (Illustrated Edition), Hoegbotton & Sons.
(As debauched a book as one is likely to own. Salacious and steamy — complete with hard-to-follow diagrams.)
Breitenbach, Joseph A., The Book of Squid Sense, Alfar Publishing Consortium.
Breitenbach, Joseph A., The Hoegbotton Pricing Guide to CollectibleCeramic Squid (chapbook), Hoegbotton & Sons.
Brek, George, The Squid and the Shade-Head: Philosophical Loci of the New Art, Tarzia Publishers.
(I much prefer the views on the New Art set out inRogers ’ Torture Squid books.) Brisk, Susan, A Compendium of Squid Sounds and Squid-RelatedSounds, Southern Cities Press.
(What, you might ask, is a “squid-related” sound? The unexpected gush of a water funnel. The wet slap of a tentacle against a railing. Suckers clamping down on skin.) Brisk, Susan, The Illustrated Book of Squid, Hoegbotton & Sons.
Brod, Maxwell, Classic Fallacies in the Work of Jonathan Madnok, Debunked Press.
(I include this misshapen and monstrous text only to provide a balanced bibliography. Not a word of this book, except for some conjunctions and prepositions, contains any truth.) Burden, Rosetta, The Cephalopod’s Colophon, House & Garden.
Burke, K. Craddock, The Short Lives of Squid Cults: An nalsof a Long Legacy, Hoegbotton & Sons.
(Squid cults have afflicted us since before the rise of the Dogghe Tribes. This fascinating book traces their development and frequent demise. The most interesting chapter explains the intricacies of the Squid Head Cult that arose during the civil unrest caused by the Reds and the Greens.) Burlveener, William Barnett, Encyclopedia Cephalopodia, Frankwrithe & Lewden.
Burlveener, William Barnett, The Compleat Squider, Outdoor Adventure Publishing.
Burlveener, William Barnett, The Inkmaker’s Reference Guide, Borges Bookstore Publishing.
(Most relevant for the whimsical aside on Hellatose the performing squid.) Butterhead, R.G., The Double Cephalopod Folio: The Story of Da fed’s “Squids of Ambergris,”
Hoegbotton & Sons.
Butterhead, R.G., The Squidqueller’s Handbook, Fisherman’s Hook Publications.
Cane, Albert, Squidanthropy: Causes and Appropriate Reactions, Modern Psychiatrics Press.
(One of the few doctors to grasp the true nature of this tragically misunderstood phenomenon.) Chisler, John, The Hoegbotton Guide to Anthomania, Hoegbotton & Sons Press.