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steatopygia
Anthropology: The condition of having large deposits of fat on the buttocks, as in Hottentot and Bushmen women. The stylized steatopygia of an Upper Paleolithic statuette found in southern Europe indicates the possbility that this present-day Capoid specialty may have been commoner in Caucasoids at this early period. Derived from Greek stear, steatos, fat, and pyge, buttocks. (In other words, "baby got back").
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imprecate
to invoke evil or utter curses on
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calumniate
to utter maliciously false statements, charges, or imputations about
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Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakam
The woman pushed on the baby's stomach and sucked its penis into her mouth; it was thinner than the American menthols she smoked and a bit slimy, like raw fish.

Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
In 1517, Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, feeling great pity for the Indians who grew worn and lean in the drudging infernos of the Antillean gold mines, proposed to Emperor Charles V that Negroes be brought to the isles of the Caribbean, so that they might grow worn and lean in the drudging infernos of the Antillean gold mines.

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"Keep On Movin'"
posted Friday, March 29, 2002:

It's an hour before lunch, and my manager just came in to tell me that it's an "early day." In other words, don't come back from lunch. I love my job.

Fly-by, hit-and-run, wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am week. Snowboarding on Wednesday with Leif and the Fatbob, which is just what I need for my size-13 feet, but it didn't make much difference because the slopes were windblown and icy, prompting an early retreat to the Breckenridge Brewery for India Pale Ale, onion rings, and burgers.

Training at the new job. I can take hands-on failure, try-try-again, but sitting in a stock room for four hours?after eight hours at a desk?listening to the hype and company propaganda that overshadows the actual product training makes for a very sleepy and very irritated boy. I'm on the floor tomorrow. Bring it on.

What started out as a great idea chugging down the tracks at eighty miles an hour has lost some steam as I debate and redebate the whole moving plan. Cons: down payments, mortgages, taxes, packing, furniture (or lack thereof). Pros: tabula rasa, independence, closer to work, shirtless movers (the weather has me optimistic at any rate).

I'm living it day-by-day and not even glancing in the general direction of my calendar because it's too much to bear: party tonight, work in the morning, party tomorrow night, work in the morning. Get up. Get down. Don't stop. My life is a never-ending dance track. I love it. «

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