Analysis / Raving Lunacy

• Little Boy, The Fake Story: "The Garden" is indeed a rough translation of the name of the small town where Munday spent most of his childhood.
• Sometimes I Wish, The Fake Story: The "Sometimes I wish I had a girl." line refers to Munday's as of now unsuccessful love life. "Sometimes I wish I was one." reveals that he has fantacised about belonging to the fairer sex. "Sometimes I wish both at the same time." could easily be taken as an off-hand remark about how he believes he would like women even if he was one, or how he finds the thought of being a girl involved with a man unsettling, but it's actually a subtle reference to Munday's bisexuality, something which isn't really mentioned anywhere else in Raving Lunacy, as every other "romantic mention" in it is between a male and a female, which is likely just a coincidence, but could be to, for whatever reason, keep his bisexuality secret.
• To the World's Most Wonderful Person, The Fake Story: This poem is actually about a very real person indeed, namely English actress Emma Watson, of Harry Potter fame, whom Munday has had a huge crush on for years.
• Both Archerus Peurce and The Ballad of Whoufey and Draeja (Gnikeht's Lament Rhobbaduiann's Song) are heavily inspired by World of Warcraft, and the latter is set in its Verse, mainly Azuremyst Isle, but also the Exodar and at least one other place; presumably Bloodmyst Isle, Teldrassil or northern mainland Kalimdor. All five titular characters, despite Rhobbaduiann not actually appearing in the poem, either are (Archerus, Gnikeht, Rhobbaduiann; Munday's primary realm) or were (Whoufey, Draeja; another server) characters of his in the game, though Archerus' surname was made up for the purposes of the poem. Gnikeht, Whoufey and Draeja are all Draenei Shamans; Archerus is a Night Elf Death Knight, and Rhobbaduiann, who is male, is a Draenei Priest.
  • By the way, it's pronounced "ARCH-eh-russ", "WHOO-fee", "DRE-ya", "GNEE-keht" (the "g" is actually pronounced, and the last "h" is actually like the "ch" in "loch") and "rob-a-DO-ee-ann" (the first "o" is pronounced as it would be in a British accent, and the first "a" is like the "a" in "bad"). Could it be any simpler?
• The River Giant from The Fantastic Space is basically an introduction to a fantasy novel/ series of novels Munday is planning. The River Giant itself is actually an enormous statue built by an early human civilisation to incite fear into enemies and cause pride, hope and a sense of safety in their own people. It's only sentient for the purposes of the poem, though it was genuinely officially and symbolically ordered to serve the society that built it by the prince who was in charge of overseeing its construction.
• The The Fake Story category is Exactly What It Says on the Tin. It's a story. And it's fake. At least largely. It's about Munday's youth, though, one way or another.
• Thumbe-Hearte came to be when Munday was having pain in his thumb and he "felt like there was a pulsating heart in it".

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