Eriatarka

I feel I have to put my two cents in on this one, I love these lyrics too much not to. Eriatarka is short for Eriatarka House of Facial and Muscular Corrections, the office of Dr. Wolfram Tarant, MD. Tarant has an unspecified number of dog heads for hands which gnaw and rip flesh apart and then lick the wounds (I believe their saliva has some sort of healing quality). This is Tarant’s method of surgery, which he uses to turn Cerpin into Clavietika Los Tres Ojos.

“And there are those who hadn’t found the speaking so wrong” The dogs can talk, apparently with beautiful voices according to Tarant “Is it wrong” This line is repeated often throughout. I believe it represents Cerpin’s skepticism of Dr. Tarant’s intentions. “Of Pavlov lore They ran rampant though the floors” A reference to the mongrel tarants on Wolfram’s wrists. Pavlov was a Russian psychologist who discovered classical conditioning by making dogs salivate to a bell ring. “Is this wrong Feels so wrong” Again, this marks Cerpin’s confusion and doubt “Happened on a respirator In the basements” Just like it sounds, the surgery took place in the basements of Eriatarka and Cerpin was put on a respirator. “Are they gone” This is Cerpin either wondering where the mongrel tarants are during a pause in the surgery, or panicking over his missing body parts. “Stung the slang of a gallows bird” There’s a reference in the storybook to the songs of gallows birds when Cerpin is sentenced by the lepers “Rationed a dead letter pure” Dead letter may refer to the sentence made by the lepers, which is made irrelevant by tremulant interventions “Trackmarked amoeba lands craft” Refers to Cerpin’s travels the different vessels he took before his arrival at Eriatarka: amoebas, a train, and a submarine which landed on the river bank where the house is “Cartwheel of scratches” May specifically reference the boxcar of may represent a sum of the injuries inflicted on Cerpin “Dress the tapeworm as pet” ????Maybe Cerpin is the tapeworm, since he has a very low impression of himself, and dress as pet refers to the surgery which turns him into a Clavietka, which is all planned out by the tremulants thus making the Clavietika their pet? “Tentacles smirk please” Another reference to the mongrel tarants “Flinched the cocooned meat” When Cerpin arrived in the ESP he was encased in a cocoon-like structure “Infra-recon forgets” After the surgery, Cerpin loses his memory “Evaporated the fur Because it covers them” A reference to the Clavietika killing the phyxias, who wore fur loincloths as clothing. “If you only know the plans they had for us” Either Tarant referencing the plans that the tremulants have for him and Cerpin, or perhaps a motive of the tremulants for killing the lepers and unleashing Moatilliatta on Topiltzin “They used to have pulses in them but impulse had made them strong” ??? I have no idea

Only people who have read the storybook can truly understand this explanation and this song for that matter