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Limanora

Chapter 3: GLOSSARY
By Godfrey Sweven
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A narrator who awakens among an isolated island people recounts his gradual education into a futuristic society built around refined sensory arts and speculative instruments. He learns specialized sciences and institutions such as memory valleys, earth‑seeing, the electric sense (firla), sonarchitecture, and devices for recording and translating light, smell, and cosmic music, while encountering practical technologies including anti‑grav flight and communal nutrition halls. Episodes move between hermitry, guided journeys through technical centres, and a catastrophic crisis that reveals local doctrines of heaven and hell, concluding with reflective commentary that mixes eyewitness observation and explanatory accounts of the civilisation's machines and practices.

GLOSSARY

  • AILOMO—The astrobiological families.
  • AIROLAN—A sensometer, or instrument for finding the personal
  • equation of a man.
  • ALCLIROLAN—Radiographic cinematograph; an instrument
  • combining microscope, camera in vacuo, and electric power.
  • ALFARENE—Oxygen shrub.
  • AMMERLIN—Historoscope.
  • CIRALAISON—Museum of terrors.
  • CLEVAMOLAN—Combination of telescope and makrakoust, or
  • distance-hearer.
  • CLIMOLAN—Earth-sensor.
  • CLIROLAN—Instrument that combines electro-microscopy and
  • photography.
  • CLIROLANIC—Infinitesimally microscopic.
  • CORFALEENA—Vacuum-engine car.
  • DOOMALONA—The hill of farewells.
  • DUOMOVAMOLAN—Instrument that interprets the music of the
  • cosmos.
  • ERFALEENA—Anti-gravitation flight-car.
  • FALEENA—Ship of the air.
  • FARFALEENA—Electric faleena.
  • FAROSAN—Aroma-recorder.
  • FIALUME—The valley of memories.
  • FILAMMU—The will-telegraph.
  • FIRLA—The electric sense.
  • FIRLALAIN—The firlamaic department of Oomalefa.
  • FIRLAMAI—The arts of the electric sense.

  • FIRLAMAIC—Belonging to the arts of the firla.
  • FIRLAMAN—A musical instrument that appeals to the firla.
  • FLORAMO—The botanical families.
  • FLORONAL—The tree of life.
  • FRALOOMIAMO—The families of pioneers that imagine and
  • represent the distant future.
  • GERMABELL—A tree with fruit that makes the muscles and
  • cartilage more elastic.
  • IDLUMIAN—Electric steriliser.
  • IDROLAN—Observer and magnifier of electric impulses.
  • IDROLINASAN—Machine-reporter of the thoughts and feelings
  • and words of an assembly.
  • IDROSAN—Recorder of electric impulses and sensations.
  • IDROVAMOLAN—Instrument for at once seeing and hearing at
  • great distances.
  • ILARIME—Edifice devoted to the arts of smell, taste, and
  • sound combined.
  • IMANORA—Centennial review of the civilisation and its
  • progress.
  • IMATARAN—The focusser of history.
  • INAMAR—Instrument for splitting up light into its
  • constituents.
  • INASAN—Recorder of luminous impressions.
  • INOLAN—Measurer of light.
  • IRELIUM—Iridescent metal applicable to all manner of
  • purposes by the Limanorans.
  • LABRAMOR—Alloy of irelium that sponges up and retains
  • electricity.
  • LABROLAN—Instrument for drawing electricity from the air and
  • the clouds.
  • LAVIDROLAN—Camera-telescope.
  • LAVOLAN—Revealer of the inner tissues and mechanism.
  • LEOMARIE—The science and art of earth-seeing.
  • LEOMO—The families of earth-seers.
  • LEOMORAN—The earth-perforator.
  • LENTA—The minutest division of time in Limanora.
  • LILAMO—The families that watch the security of the island.
  • LILARAN—The storm-cone.
  • LILARIE—The science and art of island-security.
  • LINAMAR—The analyst of sounds.
  • LINASAN—Recorder and reproducer of sounds.

  • LINOKLAR—Spectroscopic analyst and recorder of vapours.
  • LOOMIAMO—Families of pioneers who imagine and represent the
  • links that connect the present with the distant future.
  • LOOMIEFA—The theatre of futurition.
  • MANORA—Decennial review of the progress made by the people.
  • MARGOL—Electric instrument for blending or reducing the
  • strength of perfumes, flavours, and sounds.
  • MINELLA—Edifice for formula-machines.
  • MIRLAN—Life-lamp for revealing and recording internal
  • processes for the use of the eye, the ear, and the electric sense.
  • MOLTA—The Limanoran measure of infinitesimal length.
  • MONALAN—Electrical distance-analyst.
  • MORNALAN—Time-telescope.
  • NAROLLA—Dream-stimulants.
  • OOARAN—Psychometer.
  • OOAROMO—Psycho-physiological families.
  • OOLORAN—The sonarchitect.
  • OOLOREFA—The hall of sonarchitecture.
  • OOMALEFA—Halls of nutrition and medication.
  • OOROLAN—Instrument for transforming form and colour into
  • melody.
  • PIRAKNO—Machine for drawing electricity from space.
  • PIRAMO—The meteorological families.
  • RIMLA—The centre of force.
  • SALOSAN—The gustagraph.
  • SARIFOLAN—Instrument that interprets for sight, hearing, and
  • the electric sense the graphic records of the mirlan.
  • SARMOLAN—Cosmic barometer.
  • SIDRALAN—Biometer.
  • SIDRALMO—Bio-chemical families.
  • SIDRAMO—The chemical families.
  • TERRALONA—The edifice of outlook into heaven and hell.
  • THINAMAR—Visualiser of sound.
  • TIRLEOMORAN—Electric earth-perforator.
  • TREMOLAN—Electric clock indicating the changes of
  • electricity in various parts of the island.
  • TREVAMOLAN—Graduated modifier of sound.
  • VAMOLAN—Makro-mikrakoust.
  • VIMOLAN—Photo-electric analyser.