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The Coming Race · Chapter

XII explained

The narrator delves into the language of the Vril-ya, describing its evolution through isolating, agglutinative, and inflectional stages, and provides examples of word formation, grammar, and political terminology such as Koom-Posh and Glek

What happens

The narrator delves into the language of the Vril-ya, describing its evolution through isolating, agglutinative, and inflectional stages, and provides examples of word formation, grammar, and political terminology such as Koom-Posh and Glek-Nas.

Themes in this chapter

  • Critique of Democracy and American Politics

    The narrator explains Koom-Posh as 'Hollow-Bosh' and Glek-Nas as 'universal strife-rot,' offering a satirical view of democratic governance.

Characters to notice

  • The Narrator

    The narrator analyzes the Vril-ya language and its historical development.

Key passages

  • Koom-Posh is their name for the government of the many, or the ascendancy of the most ignorant or hollow.

    Koom-Posh refers to rule by the many, where the ignorant or empty-headed hold power.

    The narrator defines a key political term of the Vril-ya.

  • Glek-Nas may be construed, 'the universal strife-rot.'

    Glek-Nas means widespread conflict and decay.

    The term describes a state of societal collapse due to popular passion or ferocity.