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Word: glandelinia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nations, Glandelinia, is villainously cruel and built on child slavery. The good country of Abbiennia, on the other hand, is pious, Catholic and freedom loving, and it goes to war against the Glandelinians to liberate the tots. In its struggles it is led by seven little princesses called the Vivian sisters (shades of Enid Blyton and Ethel M. Dell!). They are aided by benign dragonlike beasts called Blengins. Virtue triumphs in the end--over whole landscapes of child corpses. Since Darger probably began writing the work between 1910 and 1912, it's likely that his unreadable Iliad of two nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: A LIFE OF BIZARRE OBSESSION | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

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