Screenshot showing the header of a dictionary entry for the word 'pabulation.' After the entry word title, it reads: 2: intellectual sustenance pabulum for consideration and reflection 3: something (such as writing or speech) that is insipid, simplistic, or bland wrote pabulum that was intended to offend no one'

The mental pabulum purveyed by this establishment probably answered to the needs of Leo's brothers and sisters; but for him, the eldest, it was quite insufficient."

-- Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

Pabulum /

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