Bruno Skult — Bruno Schulz: Polish writer and translator
Sven Hassel — Danish author, wrote Kommando Reichsführer Himmler
Daddy Cool — Australian rock band
Lieutenant Onada — Hinoo, a Japanese intelligence officer; for a number of years after World War II had ended, he sat isolated on some godforsaken island, firmly believing that the war was still going on
Count Gyula Andrássy, etc. — the Habsburg Minister of Foreign Affairs; together with Bismark, he negotiated the alliance with Germany in 1879
Ngugi — John, Kenyan, one of the world’s best cross-country runners
Humwawa — demon, master of perversion, face made from viscera
Mangu — Möngke Khan, descended from Ghengis, he ruled in the 1250s over the largest state that ever existed
Mokelé-mbémbés — dinosaurs still believed to be living in tropical Africa
Sickan Carlsson and Thor Modéen — Swedish actors
Anticimex — Swedish hardcore punk band
Baubo — old woman in Greek mythology; tried to cheer the goddess Demeter up while the latter was mourning the loss of her daughter
Kaiomortz — both beast and man, the oldest of all creatures
Nyarlathotep — read Lovecraft already
Igjugarjuk — Inuit mystic who claimed that the way to wisdom was found through solitude and suffering, far away from men
Saida in the Hemmets Journal—“Home Journal”; Saida Andersson was an advice columnist
fotzelovers—fotze is slang for “cunt”
Mazdaznan-Hanisch — Otto Hanish founded the Mazdaznan movement, a synchretistic religion focused on health
the secret teachings of Saprophytism — being the teachings of something (or somethings?) living off dead and rotting substances
Mundebo and Jan-Erik Wikström — Swedish politicians, members of the People’s Party
Bildt — Carclass="underline" Swedish former prime minister and nowadays foreign minister
Anna Lindmarker — Swedish journalist
Einsatzkommando — a Nazi killing squad active in World War II
Pastor Paisley — pastor in Northern Ireland and leader of the Democratic Unionist Party
Garn howled outside of Gnipahall — in Norse mythology, Gnipahalla was the entrance to Niflheimr (the “Abode of Mist”) and the wolf Garmr was set to guard the entrance
Renat — Swedish vodka
AMS — Swedish National Labor Market Board
Svante Thuresson — Swedish jazz musician
John Houdi — Swedish illusionist and magician
Svarte Filip — Filip Johansson or “Black-Filip”: Swedish soccer forward
Arschberg — Robert Aschberg, a vulgar TV-show personality
Pier Luigi Farnese — black magic made him rape the Bishop of Fano (according to Jacob Burckhardt)
Vi i femman—“We in the Fifth Grade”: a Swedish radio question and answer show for children
Race Gunther — Hans Friedrich Karl Gunther, influential Nazi Nordicist
Glaube und Schönheit—“the Faith and Beauty Society” was a Hitler youth organization open to young girls ages seventeen to twenty-one
Christmas Tree Plundering — a Swedish festival that takes place on January 13th (Saint Knut’s Day), which marks the end of the Christmas season; Before the Christmas tree is thrown out, it is “plundered”
Harald and Frank Alexander — father and sixteen year-old son, murdered three family members in ritual fashion (the mother and two teenage daughters) with knives on Tenerife in 1970: the women’s breasts and vaginal lips were cut off and their hearts cut out; the Alexanders claimed their motive was to “save humanity”
Michael Myers and Jason — from Halloween and the Friday the 13th films, respectively
Charis and metron — ancient Greek terms: Charis refers to grace, light, a joy in simple stillness; metron entails a resolve to lead a balanced life; see also the works of Vilhelm Ekelund
ahimsa — total non-violence (within Jainism)
Seydlitz — Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbac: general, leader of the captured officers who worked with the Bolsheviks following the Battle of Stalingrad
Konrad Kujau — claimed at the beginning of the 1980s that he’d found Hitlers diaries
Ansgar — St. Ansgar, the “Apostle of the North”
cura … usura — Heidegger-Pound
Los Novios de la Muerte — a death squadron organized by Klaus Barbie and Stefano delle Chiaie, among others
Aouita — Saïd: Moroccan athlete
boar snout — a Viking charge
Fanfarlo … Horla — Baudelaire-Maupassant
Mafarka … Uomo finito — Marinetti-Papini
Zebulon—“Zeb” Macahan; see How the West was Won.
Bombi Bitt — television character played by Stellan Skarsgård, Swedish actor
deshimaric — Taisen Deshimaru, Zen Buddhist teacher and monk
Leibstandarte — Hitler’s bodyguards
“lord of silence, supreme god of desolation”—from Damien Thorns monologue in Omen III
airyanem vaejo — the Aryan Persians’ legendary Northern home swet-dvipa — the region situated in the farthest Northern reaches, where Narayuna (which is light) lives together with uttarakua (the ancient Northern race): according to Aryan-Indian traditions
XXVII
Grandpa was lying down and watching Father’s Little Dividend with Spencer Tracy. He’d drunk fifty beers, Kaltenberg and Kaiserdom Edel, since this afternoon. I’d just dumped ten cans of maggots into a bowl and was coming back from the kitchen. I also had a flask of Portello and a saucer of unripe gooseberries. The movie had reached the scene where Spencer is in the swing talking to his whoredaughter. She’s knockedup and worried about how it’ll be between her and the guy who fucked her when the baby falls out.
“How did you feel when you had your first baby?” she asks. “Did it make any difference between you and Mom?”
“… I remember lying awake that night, thinking to myself: Now what have we got into, here we were, two perfectly happy people, free as the air — now we’re trapped, trapped by twenty inches of screaming humanity.”
— Whoresongod and Jewjesus! That’s exactly how it is! Grandpa exclaimed. If I didn’t have you holding me down, I could run like Ratatoskr! up and down Chaos’s cock! I’d get back everything I’veever given up! I could’ve been a diva! a primadonna! Courted by the worlds richest, most perverted queers! I would’ve been worse than Zarah Leander! Farah Diba! Divine! Liberace! ten thousand times worse!
Grandpa sat up and took a fistful of flylarvae and sawdust. It probably didn’t taste very good, though … Suddenly, he snorted and spit the maggots out all over the table.
— Fuck Satan all the way back to hell! they were hardly moving! I bet my blackguards knee and tenniselbow you didn’t keep them in the fridge! They rot at room temperature!
He cuffed my ear and took the switch with the colorful feathers out of the urn where we kept it.
— You’re about to get what’s coming to you … shitcunt …
Grandpa seemed to be getting the sunsetblues … Must be in the genes, because I usually feel pretty sour in the evening, too … He threw me across the table, yanked down my pants, shouted a few curses, and started beating me with the springy switch.
— How I hate you! Pampers and Semper! Kamratposten and Barnjournalenl And you actually dared to like them! You actually had the stomach for it! Evilevildevilllll! There you go! And there! There! Everyman! Tusenbröder! Tschandala!