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65 -**prelapsarian:** theology: referring to the time before the Fall, that of Adam and Eve. Refers to the time or characteristic of being innocent. -**Wistfulness:** pensive or melancholic It therefore means to the state of innocent and idealistic thoughts. In context it critiszes the fact that living in harmony and community with animals cannot be attained. 67
 * Agitate: ** to try to arouse public opinion. In this case it refers to creating a movement in favor of a better animal treatment in slaughterhouses.
 * economic vacuum**: relates to the absence of money involved in something. In the text it would mean in an absence of any economic implications
 * utopian:** it is a place that is perfect or ideal in every type of aspect. It is used to explain an ideal world where animals are not slaughtered for food and humans rely on other types food. It’s a direct criticism to something that is impossible for now.
 * __prelapsarian wistfulness:__**
 * food-faddism:** A fashion that is taken up with great enthusiasm for a brief period of time; a craze. Here it refers here to Elizabeth Costello’s pursue to briefly change people’s eating habits.
 * Foist:**  means to impose one’s ideas fraudulently. 

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 * Second Ark** : name of animal conservation organization promoting the conservation of species.
 * Brave New World:** novel by Aldous Huxley written in 1931. It is a futuristic novel of a dystopia, where methods of artificial mass production of embryos is discovered and learning while sleeping.
 * King Midas:** it is the story of a King Midas who was granted one wish and hastily decided to asked for everything that he touched to be turned into gold. Everything that he loved also turned into gold, so he became very miserable and regretted his wish. In context Costello refers to him by meaning that she should not say what she thinks because saying them would have huge repercussions.
 * 100% human stearate:** stereate means any salt or ester of stearic aci, therefore it means that it contains human remains. By making reference to the previous words ( Treblinka: a WWII extermination camp) it creates a nasty image.