by Rene Daumal
dream, I, 10, 14, 19; (mutual), I, 4; (and fiction), III, 5, 8
dream revolution, I, 17
drinking (party), I, 15; II, 20, 41; III, 10, 15
drinks, I, passim; (infamous), I, 16; (thirst-making), II, 20; (Escapees’), II, 2, 4; (dregs of bottles), III, 2
drugs, II, (8), 39
dustbins (inspector of), II, 37, 38
ear (good), II, 31
earth (element), I, 7
Earth (roundness of the), I, 1, 5
education, II, 30
Einstein, II, 31
elements, I, 7
emotion, II, 28
erudition, I, 7
Escapees, II, 2 et seq.; (Top), II, 6 et seq.
esoteric (meaning), II, 35
ether, II, 39
exit (the three -s), II, 1
experimental (method), II, 28; cf. Pan
explicators, II, 6, 23 et seq.
Fabricators of useless objects, II, 6, 10 et seq.
faith, II, 29; (of the Scienter), II, 28
Faraday, I, 6
Fargue, L. P., I, 13
Faustroll, I, 7
fear (of thinking), I, 5; (of becoming mad), I, 15; (of blundering), II, 34
Fidgeters, II, 6, 7, 8; (use of), II, 39
fine poetic frenzy, II, 17
fire (keeping in), I, 2; III, 2, 3, 4
Flatulencers, II, 37
Fondane, Benjamin, I, 19
Fritillarists, II, 37
fuel, III, 2, 3, 4
games, II, 8
geometry (ies), II, 31; (and painting), II, 14
god (inner), II, 16; cf. organ
God, I, 18
gods, I, 16; II, 6, 9, 40, 41, 42; (and actors), II, 22
governing, II, 9
gymnastics, II, 30
hand of glory, I, 18
hashish, II, 39
heart (to know by), II, 30, 31; (frog’s), II, 12
Hegel, I, 19; II, 31
Hell (put out the flames of), II, 42
Helmholtz, I, 6
Higgins, I, 6
hope, II, 29; III, 12
house (of glass), II, 10; (uninhabitable), II, 11; (walking), III, 6, 7, 8
ideal (common), II, 39; (human organism), II, 11
ideas (world of), II, 10
Idyllomancers, II, 37
images, I, 10
infinitesimal, II, 28
initiated, II, 35
inspiration, II, 17, 18
intellect (ears of), II, 31
intentions (bad), II, 38
Ion, II, 31
Iridomancers, II, 37
Jarry, Alfred, I, 13
Jericho (walls of), I, 7
Jerusalem (counter-celestial), II, 6
Kierkegaard, I, 19
Kirittiks, II, 17, 20, 21
knowing (real knowledge), I, 7; (knowledge and), II, 28
knowledge, II, 28, 31; (tree of), II, 29
Kundt, I, 6
language, I, 10; (sign), II, 15; (poetic), II, 17; (literary), III, 5, 8
larva, III, 10
libraries, II, 13, 17
life, II, 10; (imaginary -s), II, 16, 19; (tree of), II, 29; (of the Sopliers), II, 34; (and death), II, 39
listeners (awkward), II, 17
litanies (bacchic), I, 15
Logologists, II, 33
Lord (name of the), II, 36
love, III, 12
Lucian, II, 40
lyricism, II, 17
machine (human), II, 4; cf. walking house; (typing), I, 16; (poetical), II, 18; (hair counting), II, 26; (adding), II, 31, 33; (repeating), II, 41
Magi, Magicians, Magic, II, 37
man, I, 2; III, 9, 10, 11, 12; (according to the Scienters), II, 27; (as parasite on houses), II, 11; (normal adult), II, 32; III, 10, 11; (’s height), III, 1
Mancers, II, 37
mankind, III, 9
Marx, Karl, I, 19
material (raw, of poetry), II, 18
mathematicians, II, 31
mathematics and poetry, II, 31
mechanism, II, 31; III, 6; cf. machine
meditation (appearance of), I, 3
metamorphosis; cf. axolotl, caterpillar, tadpole
meter (poetic), II, 18
Meyie, Meyicans, Meyic, II, 37
microbe of Scientry, II, 2, 29
microcosm and macrocosm, II, 18
minstrels, II, 17
Mnemographers, II, 19
Molybdomancers, II, 37
mortal remains, II, 40
motorist, III, 8
museums, II, 2, (12), 13, 30
music; cf. sound
Nakiñtchanamoûrti, II, 35
nature, II, 10; (imitation of), II, 14
necessities (bare), I, 16
Nibblists, II, 17, 19
number (and musical sound), I, 6; (golden), II, 15; (inexpressible -s), II, 31; (prime -s), 11, 31
observer, II, 20
octopus, II, 22
Oinophilus, II, 20
old man (of tomorrow), II, 39
Omniscienter, II, 27
opium, II, 7, 39
organ (Fabricators’ sickly internal), II, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 21
organism (ideal human), II, 11
organizers, II, 9
ouroborism, II, 41
painters, painting, II, 14
Palmologists, II, 37
Pan (hunt for), II, 25
paradise, II, 38, 42; (delusory -s), II, 3, 20; III, 2, 5; (caterpillar’s), III, 10
Philophasists, II, 32
philosophers (pejorative use of this word), II, 34
philosophy (premature), I, 1; (aim of), II, 20
Plato, I, 19; III, 11; cf. Ion
poetry, II, 17, 18; (shallow-sleep), I, 19; (and mathematics), II, 31
Politologists, II, 32
pre-actors, II, 22
priests (spurious), II, 36
Primes, II, 40
probabilities (theory of), II, 18
prophet (of misfortune), I, 16
Psittacism, II, 30
psyche, psychography, II, 32
psychoanalysis, I, 17; cf. dustbins
public, II, 12, 13, 14, 21, 22
pure (truth, knowledge, speculation), II, 28, 32
Puriticators of Accounts, II, 31
Pwatts, II, 17, 18
rabbit (clarification of a), II, 25, 26
Rabelais, I, 13
Racine, II, 30
rationalism (modern), II, 18
reality, I, 10
reason, II, 18
refrains, I, 14
religion, II, 30
respiratory (exercises), II, 39
responsibility (artist’s), II, 17, 18, 19
rhythm (in poetry), II, 17
Rijke, I, 6
rites, II, 36
Rive (de la), I, 6
robots, II, 4
roulette, II, 8
Savart, I, 6, 7
Schaffgotsch, I, 6
science, I, 6; (in the service of art), II, 11; cf. knowing
Scienters, Scientry, II, 24 to 29
scientist, I, 6; II, 28
serum (as therapy for escape), II, 2, 29
service, II, 36
servile, II, 36
shell (Sophers’), II, 34;
(shell of), cf. snail
silence, II, 22; (intellectual), II, 31
sincerity, II, 16, 19
sirens (intellectual), II, 31
sleep, I, 9, 19; cf. dream
snail (and motorist), III, 8; (calf liver -s), III, 12
society, II, 10; (adult), II, 32; (caterpillar), III, 10, 11
Socrates, II, 31
solitude, I, 1, 2
Sondhaus, I, 6
Sophers, Sophia, II, 24, 34 et seq.
soul, II, 10
soul (twin), I, 2
sound (power of), I, 4 to 12; (musical), I, 6 to 8; (silent essence of), I, 7; (viscosity of), I, 12; (sounding instruments), II, 16
space (secretion of), II, 5; (relative), II, 28; (in t
he form of espaliers, etc.), II, 31
specters (imitators of), II, 22
speech (use of), I, 10; (disinterested), II, 16
spider, II, 5
Spinoza, I, 19
sports, II, 41; cf. winners
standard (scientist’s), II, 28
stars and grand crosses, II, 8
stupid people (delights provided by), I, 6
suicide (a few methods of), II, 39
sun, I, 16; (audible -s), I, 7; (cold -s), II, 15; (appeals to the), III, 3, 4
syllogism, II, 33; III, 11
tadpole, I, 15
taglufon, II, 41
Tao-Teh, I, 19
tarots, II, 37
teaching, II, 30; III, 11
temperament (of painters), II, 14
Tertullian, II, 36
thirst, I, 1, 9, 10, 12, 15, 16; II, 1, 2, 15, 18, 20, 41
thought(s), I, 10, 19; (in the artist), II, 14, 17, 18, 32; (thinking machines), II, 18; (free), III, 6; (according to the Scienters), II, 28; (black, blue, etc.), I, 10, 11, 15
time, II, 5, 31
timeless truths, II, 35
towers (ivory), II, 10
travelers (imaginary), II, 34
troubadours, II, 17
truth, II, 10; (pure), II, 28, 32, 33; (of the Sophers), II, 34
Ulysses, II, 31
unconscious, I, 9
understand and act, II, 42
uneasiness (inner), I, 9
Upanishads, I, 19
useless gestures (art of), II, 15
useless utterances, II, 17 to 21; (methods of using), II, 29, 39
veins (liquid), I, 7
virtuosi, I, 6
voice, I, 7, 8
vowels (scale for), I, 9
water, I, 7; (and fire), III, 12; (holy), II, 29, 36
Wheatstone, I, 6
will, II, 28
winners, II, 4, 30
wise (old heads), II, 34
words (power of), I, 4, 9, 10; (familiar), I, 8; (transmutation of), II, 17; (machine), II, 18; (the word “word”), II, 41; (gutted), III, 12
work (enthusiasm for), II, 4
world, II, 10; III, 9
writing, II, 17
young people, II, 39
MORE LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION FROM OVERLOOK
Mount Analogue • 978-1-58567-342-1 • $14.95
Le Contre-Ciel • 978-1-58567-401-5 • $14.95