Mathein Pathein: a thesaurus of the idiolect of John David Jackson (1925–2016)

The compiler's father's lexicon of admonishments and metaphors designed to chastise immediately and with more lasting effects over the longer term. Divided into subject lists - 'Architecture', 'Carpentry', 'Colours', some with background to the terms and, for example, from the categories above, 'Bailiwick', 'How many times do I have to hammer it into your thick skull?' and 'Puce Green' respectively. Signed by the compiler.

Publisher: Privately printed [the author]
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: Berkeley, CA
Printed wrappers. Fine. With the 'A Word of Consolation to the Nervous Reader', single sheet, printed both sides, laid in. 200 copies.


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