"Metti-Metti" is of course Axhoqt's epigrammatic rejoinder to Stalin's brutal imperative. "Twerse Mollhaps Brertiefrald" is a rare example of a Pseudo-Albanian Nonsense Palindrome in pure form, where the repetition utilises the letters rather than the words. New words are created, many based on nonsense versions of long-extinct Albanian valley dialects. Embodying Axhoqt's elusive genius in an awe-inspiring tour-de-force of expression, it is an elegant vehicle for his vision of the Cosmos as "a donkey's eyelash away from perfection". The parenthetic wrap-around phrases, just failing to achieve true repetition, image the tension and strife inherent in Axhoqt's universe as they form their "insubstantial boundaries" to the whole. Quentin Flask
