Meaning of paraphernalian | Babel Free

Definitions

Relating to paraphernalia.

Examples

“The belief in the possibility of being devil-possessed was an unarguable belief in the existence of a devil personified; a devil with hairy body, cloven foot, horns, toasting-fork, and all the rest⟳ of the devilish paraphernalian make-up; […]”

“I would have⟳ to remind⟳ her, counteringly, that you don’t pick⟳ the person who fronts your life—you get⟳ picked, you watch⟳ the picker’s ankles vanish into the scrunched socks afterward (his whole body going blank behind the blue-black of the uniform), and the picker goes off in the starkest of transportations: you keep⟳ an ear cocked ever after for the return⟳ of his van and its paraphernalian clatter in the gravelled driveway.”

“What he is saying is that unless a fuller spectrum is opened out, a larger horizon of possibility envisaged, human society will remain⟳, in varying forms and according to various local colours, a cage. Either you escape⟳ from that cage and try⟳ to start⟳ again in a larger space. Or you stay⟳ within the cage, writhing and howling or else looking at yourself complacently in the mirror, stringing up half-solutions to badly formulated problems in the name⟳ of politics, piling up paraphernalian productions in the name⟳ of culture, tying coloured ribbons to the bars in the name⟳ of art.”

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