Luka's Top 100 Words

[constant escape]

Well it does seem like pasty is the popular and preferable state to be in, so that could be a good argument for the reason behind it.

Perhaps it maps on to power. The powerful can avoid the weather and weariness, and thus are higher on a scale - but on the absolute scale of material quality of life, not the relative scale. So the benchmark of average pastiness rises over time, but so does the difference of pastiness from most pasty to least pasty (and at some height pastiness advances abstractly, rather than literally, bodily).

 

[constant escape]

Even the nearest layers around the paste would be protected. Ever more expensive clothing being ever more devastating to stain.

 

[catalog]

wallowing in the mire

 

[catalog]

theres a lot about the mire in this tournier book, thats why it was on my mind

 

[constant escape]

But the pathos sticks to the relative scale. The actual body, on the absolute scale, is almost perfectly unharmed.

 

[catalog]

he builds this whole complicated building where he sits formally and writes stuff out, proposals, manifestos, makes decisions, so that he won't wallow in the mire. then it all goes to shit and the formal buidling he makes gets destroyed and hes in the mire and he's totally relieved and happy

 

[constant escape]

The soul wallows while the body stands pristine.

 

[constant escape]

he builds this whole complicated building where he sits formally and writes stuff out, proposals, manifestos, makes decisions, so that he won't wallow in the mire. then it all goes to shit and the formal buidling he makes gets destroyed and hes in the more and he's totally relieved and happy

Building on quicksand. The book sounds really interesting from what you've said of it so far, if it is the same one as the man rubbing in his feces.

 

[constant escape]

The contrivement will always fall under the harsh enough wind.

 

[catalog]

yeah thats the one. there was a really good description of smoking tonight. friday likes to go and sit in a cave and smoke, so that th smoke hangs in the air like octopus tentacles and he loses himself in the swirls

 

[version]

1. Banter

Etymology

1670s as verb, 1680s as noun. The origin is unknown, possibly from London street slang;[1] ostensibly as *bant + -er (“(frequentative)”). Possibly an Anglo-Gaelicism from the Irish bean (“woman”), so that "banter" means "talk of women."

 

[version]

2. Geezer

Etymology

From guiser. Compare also German Low German Kieser (“an obstinate person; brute; savage”).

guiser (plural guisers)

1. A person in disguise, as for a parade or festival.

 

[IdleRich]

A sort of empanada?

Is this a pie thread? Empanadas vs cornish vs pirogy etc

 

[version]

Luka's top 100 pies.

 

[luka]

I used to work in a pie shop.

 

[luka]

not one of the high points in my life.

 

[sus]

Etymology. The works. This is a vote of confidence. Do not disappoint me.

Say three Hail Tommies and cross your heart with a V or the Archivist will visit you tonight in your sleep.

 

[constant escape]

...And you will be archived, only to re-emerge whenever a relevant conversation arises.

 

[sus]

I would love some pie right now, a big slice of apple pie

Stuck in Wisconsin without food atm

 

[luka]

These were meat pies. Meat in gravy. And I'm vegetarian.