The War On Dust

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Little known fact: as the real thing doesn't show up on film, prop departments use milk instead.

 

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To give you a sense of scale, if you blow up a dust mite to the size of a dinner plate an ant's head would barely fit into an AMC Pacer, the eponymous star of Wayne's World.
No way!
Way!

 

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Airborne dust reflects incoming solar radiation, cooling the planet.

 

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Airborne dust reflects incoming solar radiation, cooling the planet.

That's why the Sahara is so freezy.

 

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[Mr. Tea]

Keep your room dust-free by placing a very old artefact in the corner; old things attract the most dust by far.

For half the regular contributors here, that's going to be us, let's face it.

 

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For half the regular contributors here, that's going to be us, let's face it.

I think you attract the most salt by far.

 

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"Balls ground to dust"—how much is packed into that phrase

Not just death of the self—the current incarnation of the life-process unfolding—but death of the descendents, death of the lineage. A total cult-de-sac.

 

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Completely emasculated. Castrated (Other Life can fill in the Lacanian details).

 

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The future (semen) becoming a thing of the past (dust). Spring made autumn. Tomorrow made yesterday.

 

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[other_life]

just koshered the flat for pesach and am gonna do some other spring cleaning/exec functioning thing w the momentum i have now. Does that count

 

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