Note 3 — Chapter I · The Nature of the American Male: A Study of Pedestalism

The word “somatic” has been left out of the glossary because of the confusion which the dictionary itself seems to be in over the meaning of the term. “Pertaining to the wall of the body” is as close as the New International comes to what we have in mind here, but it goes right on to use “parietal” as a synonym and parietal means “pertaining to order within the buildings of a college.” Then again the word goes back to the old Indian, or East Indian, root Soma which means a god, a liquor, and an asclepiadaceous climbing shrub (Sarcostemma acidum). Furthermore, if your eyes stray even a fraction of an inch, in looking up “somatic,” you are in “sölvsbergite” which includes the feldspars, ægirite, grorudite, and tinguaite.