[Title] Primal Scream: a release of intense frustration and anger, usually as part of feelings that are rediscovered through primal therapy, where patients relive traumatic childhood experiences
GLOSSARY
[13] decibel: a unit used to measure the intensity of sound [15] Elijah:
[16–18] ‘let the sky/ Pass from blue, to red, to molten gold,/ To black’: possible reference to the Doppler effect, named after physician Christian Doppler; the Doppler effect describes how the faster a star moves away from the Earth, the more its light shifts to lower frequency colours. Edwin Hubble (inventor of the Hubble Space Telescope, which Smith’s father worked on) used the Doppler effect to prove that the universe is expanding
[17] molten: melted; turned into liquid due to high heat [19] Old Testament: the part of the Bible written before the time of Jesus Christ [20] roiling: swirling, churning [27] mean: miserly, stingy, pathetic [28] racket: noise, din [30] hiccough: hiccup [32] Dawn of Man: beginning of humankind