Two Quickies

Quick poll: who's more masculine, Ernest Hemmingway or Clint Eastwood?

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"An emotional roller coaster." It's a nice metaphor, so let's think of some similar metaphors for different emotional states:

• "He's an emotional elevator. He's happy one day and then slowly visits more and more depressed floors. Then he comes back up."
• "This week's been an emotional escalator. I was sick on Monday, had a lot of stuff due on Tuesday, and now it's Friday and I feel great!"
• "I'm an emotional moving floor. People's flights land, they set their baggage on me, walk all over me, and I accept it and move on with my day."

P.S. The provlem with pasting the space character is that I keep hitting other hotkeys. So rather than type 's' I hit Apple-S and sent this entry prematurely. Should ve vetter soon.

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A "Substance-Free Area" is a vacuum.
I wonder if there's anywhere that's designated as an essence-free area...