To pump the fire of the lewd into the soulths of bauchees havsouedovers, tillfellthey deadwar knootvindict
(P:370 L:31)
This line, in the third book seems to me to be a sour bitter sermon; to pump, let us assume is really a description of mass market religiosity, in that I mean that people are being 'pumped' with religion everyday until they die in a war, a dead war at that. Everyday we are fed this message of 'cleanliness is next to godliness' that is just not true sometimes. And the word 'soulths' adds to this image of a 'sermon by fire' sort of like a trail by fire (war?), although, why not a sermon by thunder?
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