
Index
A
- Alphabet
- Collecting every known
 - made from objects
 - made of humans
 - mocking Cubism
 - use in eye charts
 
 - Architecture
- as dress
 - as model of the body
 - Competition relating to
 - Eroticised
 - Imagination and
 - in honour of colonialists
 - Novelty, animal-shaped
 - of sacramental chapel, built by bees
 - of space colonies
 
 
B
- Beetle
- carapaces as artistic medium
 - P. T. Barnum caricatured as
 - Sacred
 
 - Birth
- of artistic creation
 - of Dionysus (from Zeus' leg)
 - of rabbits from a woman named Mary Toft
 
 - Blood
- collages
 - transfusions between animals and humans
 
 - Blue
- book about blue light
 - Original rhapsody in
 - Why the sea is
 
 - Books
- fatal to their authors
 - Health effects of reading
 
 - Butter
- churning as sexual innuendo
 - Learning Rousseau while churning
 - running from the nose of a wolf
 - Sculptures made from
 - Studious man transformed into
 
 
C
- Cats
- as musical instrument
 - Avant-garde
 - called Geoffrey
 - Captioned photographs of
 - Death-defying
 - Epistolary
 - Falling
 - Innumerable
 
 - Concealment
- ability of animals
 - as nun
 - by clouds of unknown history
 - in a chess-playing automaton
 - in colour
 - in cow
 - of erotic paintings
 - of erotic words (by Latin)
 - of faces in landscapes
 - of messages
 
 - Consciousness
- Expansion of
 - Loss of
 - Models of
 - Techniques for returning the drowned to
 
 - Containment
- of human bodies
 - of information
 - Organs' capacity for
 
 
D
- Dance
- Egg
 - Little Tich's big boot
 - notation
 - of death
 - of the ages
 - Peacock
 - Photos of a square
 - plague
 
 - Death
- and bubbles
 - and learning to die
 - by books
 - by wallpaper
 - considered in relation to love and the plague
 - contrasted with life (pictorially)
 - Dance of
 - Experience of
 - in work of Laurence Sterne
 - Life after
 - masks
 - The artist of
 
 - Dreams
- (erotic) of Emmanuel Swedenborg
 - and cheese
 - and the US Civil War
 - Ether
 - in art
 - of a toddler Robert Louis Stevenson
 - of Baron Munchausen
 - of fantastical architecture
 - of Robert Southey
 
 - Drugs
- Account of using
 - Nostalgia after quitting
 - Portraits made while using
 
 
E
- Earthquake
 - Egg
- dance
 - Growth from salamander
 - noodles and misogyny
 - of ostrich engraved with scene from battle of Alcazar
 - Robert Southey dream about an
 - Slang for
 
 - Elevation
- Fondness for plants and people based on
 - Perception and balloon
 
 - Emptiness
- of pages (to illustrate “the point of everything”)
 - of pages (to promote women's suffrage)
 - of the universe prior to creation
 - of vessel, where man was expected
 
 - Exercise
- as precursor to Nazism
 - for businessmen
 - Gynecological
 - Steam-powered
 - Swedish
 - with club
 
 - Experience
- of being run over
 - of death
 - of nitrous oxide inhalation
 
 - Eye
- as erotic keepsake
 - Cause of death, preserved with the
 - Diseases of the
 - Long-distance, artificial
 - mounting toward infinity
 - Self-portrait from left
 - test chart for every nationality
 - Transparent, dinner-jacket wearing
 
 
F
- Faces
- from objects of trade
 - from writhing nudes
 - in hills
 - in pillows
 - in relation to criminality
 - in root veg
 - Reconstruction of
 
 - Failure
- of civilised society
 - to capture the night sky
 - to create accurate Portuguese–English phrasebook
 - to fit in
 
 - Fashion
- and racial fictions
 - Architectural
 - as fortune
 - Cryptozoological
 - Kimono
 - Luminous insect
 - of the future
 - Ottoman
 
 - Fire
 - Folding
 - Fortifications
 - Fountains
- Alcoholic
 - Animate
 - Avian
 - Mischievous
 
 - Freedom
- and the open road
 - Autographs for
 - of speech and Milton
 
 - Frogs
- in early film
 - morphing into Apollo
 - Raining
 
 - Future visions
- of 1970
 - of books
 - of fashion
 - of libraries
 - of London
 - of Paris
 - of technology
 - of the opera
 
 
G
- Games
- and childhood
 - and colonialism
 - Anti-capitalist
 
 - Geometry
- of Flatland
 - of higher dimensions
 - of human consciousness
 - of pre-lapsarian form
 - Renaissance challenge of visualising
 
 
H
- Hands
- Calculations involving
 - Etiquette involving
 - Farting with
 - Gesturing through
 
 - Holes
- in photographs
 - Men in
 - through Earth's crust
 - through pages
 
 - Hollow
 - Hypnosis
- Alligators under the influence of
 - Animal magnetism and
 - posters
 - Weight loss by means of
 
 
I
- Ink
- Adverts pertaining to
 - Figures made from blots of
 - History of
 - on skin
 - spawning a tantalizing fly
 
 
J
- Jewellery
- design's influence on blackwork
 - Erotic
 
 - Jokes
- by notable figures
 - Chromatic
 - Unappreciated
 - Unintentional
 
 - Juggling
- Artistic foot
 - Celestial
 
 
K
- Kiss
- as subject for earnest boghouse poem
 - between lesbians painted by Toulouse-Lautrec
 - First appearance on film of a
 - from half-grapevine being causing drunkenness
 - whistled in song
 - X as a symbol for
 
 
L
- Libraries
- Defaced
 - Lost (and imagined)
 - of the future
 
 - Loss
- of botanical knowledge
 - of innocence
 - of leg due to shark
 - of libraries
 - of species
 
 - Love
- as explored in allegorical maps
 - Censored words relating to
 - of seaweed
 
 
M
- Machines
- and the combinatorial art
 - built to mimic intelligent life
 - Five-fingered memory
 - for transforming dogs into sausages
 - imagined during the Renaissance
 - Influencing
 - Noisy
 - resembling elephants, and vice versa
 - Tooth extracted by steam-powered
 
 - Mars
- Canals of
 - Language of
 - Santa Claus conquering the inhabitants of
 - Stalin-like leader of
 - The work of
 - Travel to
 - Visitors from
 
 - Memory
- aided by hands
 - Entering Marie Antoinette's
 - Fluvial
 - of porches
 - Pillows retaining
 - tricks of Robert Fludd
 
 - Monster
- in the heart
 - Mythical
 - scroll
 - Sea
 - Syllabus of Frankenstein’s
 
 
N
- Night
- before Christmas
 - Coney Island at
 - lasting two months
 - parade of demons
 - Walking at
 
 
O
- Odin
- and Yggdrasil
 - as ancestor of George Washington
 
 - Odour
- as protection against contagion
 - of flowers as sole sustenance
 - of London (and disease)
 - of Thomas Browne's prose
 - of trees transformed by scurvy
 - Origin of life due to rotting clam's terrible
 - Picturing
 
 
P
- Pain
- in 19th-century US fiction
 - of Werther transformed
 - Visualisation of
 
 - Pigeons
- and plagiarism
 - as proto-drones
 - Emotional expression of
 - Extinction of Passenger
 - Fancy
 
 - Pole
- Eden's location at North
 - Expedition to reach South
 - Last transatlantic telephone
 - Righting the Earth's axial
 - Sinking of Earth's northern (and rising of south)
 
 - Pretending
- to be a cow
 - to be a goatlike to get beer
 - to be from Taiwan
 - to birth rabbits
 - to commune with the dead
 
 - Punctuation
- personified
 - Writing devoid of
 
 
Q
- Quiet
- as expressed in portraiture
 - Charles Babbage's desire for
 
 - Quixote, Don
- Iconography of
 - in the 20th century
 - Wit and wisdom of
 
 
R
- Rabbit
- as Lepus, made from words
 - dancing at a Christmas party
 - Drunk
 - Ezra Pound as
 - Perfect
 - Woman giving birth to
 
 - Revelation
- Book of
 - of fate
 - through the lifting of flaps
 
 - Ruins
- Flora of
 - Geometrical
 - Imaginary
 - of a future London
 - of a future US
 
 
S
- Sculpting
- butter
 - napkins
 - new faces for soldiers
 - oranges
 - primordial putty
 - whisk ferns
 
 - Separation
- of California from the mainland
 - of leaf blade from veins
 - of monarch's head from body
 
 - Sex
- and floral science
 - lives of bedbugs
 - magic
 - manual attributed to Aristotle
 
 - Silence
- of solitary confinement
 - Spoiled desire for
 
 - Silhouettes
- Botanical
 - Fox
 - Games featuring
 - in doorways
 - Physiognomic
 
 - Snow
- as metaphor for cocaine
 - Fights involving
 - Photographs of
 - Waves of
 
 - Sound
- Deadly
 - of animals in Latin
 - of Mickey Mouse on screen
 - of the future
 - outside Charles Babbage's window
 - turned to image
 
 - Spiders
- Belief in Ireland's lack of
 - Crying
 - Structures resembling
 - web as symbol
 
 - Spiral
- form of imagined musical instrument
 - in nature and art
 - patterns made from lathes
 - portrait of Jesus made from a single
 
 - Spring
 
T
- Teeth
- as listed cause of death
 - Eighty-page poem on the subject of
 - Extraction of
 - Slang for
 - Swedenborg’s dream of vaginal
 
 - Time
- and the loss of detail
 - Desaturation in Proust from the passing of
 - pieces rewarded for running true
 - Sand as allegory of
 - Sundial mottoes and
 - Visualisations of
 
 - Trees
- American
 - Art of shaping
 - British
 - Color system modelled on form of
 - Cosmic
 - fashioned from dried blood vesels
 - Phallic worship of
 - Race of intelligent
 - serving wine in 13th-century Mongolia
 
 - Tattoo
- beat on sofa cushion by penis
 - Pictish
 - Victorian
 
 
U
- Universe
- as pictured by Milton
 - as pictured by Thomas Wright
 - confused with dust
 - Crawling into
 - on a quilt
 
 - Utopia
- coming home
 - Failed
 - of the future
 - Socialist
 - Travelling to
 
 - Urine
- and medieval medicine
 - baths to ward off plague
 - flask as analogy for womb
 - Golden paint produced from cows’
 - in mouth to revive the drowned
 - Piquant cheese made from
 - pun for James Joyce’s poetic tinklings
 
 
V
- Ventilation
- Cities in need of
 - of interior spaces
 - of the body by bellows
 
 - Vehicles
- and extinction of time and space
 - and freedom
 - Fears of crowds and mice overcome by driving
 - Leaving the opera in flying
 - Pleasing mother through death by motor
 - Polo played in motor
 - Rocking chairs as psychologically-transporting
 - Runaway pushchairs as society-disrupting
 - Whale-based
 
 
W
- Waves
- Alexander beneath the
 - Design inspired by
 - from a drop
 - poised to destroy a town
 - Sketching beneath the
 - Study of
 
 - Writhing
- of bodies to make a face
 - of Jesus' perizoma
 - of the Mississippi river
 - of time in the form of streams
 
 - Writing
- Abbreviated
 - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in shorthand
 - from beyond the grave
 - from Mars
 - in pictures
 - of the insane
 - on alien vessel
 - one's name in bugs
 - to make pictures
 
 
X
- X (letter)
- as a humorous algebraic variable
 - as a mark of failure
 - in alphabet books
 - to signify the unknown
 
 - X-ray
- as inspiration for Futurist art
 - Damage of corsets revealed by
 - Early imaging using
 - The X in alphabet books before the invention of
 
 
Y
- Yellow
- journalism
 - pages of 18th-century sex workers
 - paint, history of
 - Paintings in black, white, and
 - skin due to excessive masturbation
 - trousers of melancholy
 
 
Z
- Zodiac
- Atlas of the
 - images comprised of words
 - man (homo signorum)
 - playing cards
 - Travels across the
 
 

