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Where intention goes to nap until guilt becomes a load-bearing structure.
means A heap of things—papers, laundry, regrets—stacked loosely on top of one another, usually growing faster than it shrinks.
from From the Latin 'pila,' meaning a pillar or stone bulwark, which also gave us the 'pile' driven into the ground to hold up bridges and buildings. The sense drifted from a single sturdy column to any mass heaped up high—so the laundry mountain on your chair shares an ancestor with load-bearing architecture, which the essence already suspected.
- reactor type
- first nuclear reactor was called Chicago Pile-1
- carpet term
- a carpet's pile is its standing fiber height
- engineering
- deep foundations called piles hold up skyscrapers
- old slang
- making a pile once meant amassing a fortune
- voltaic
- battery's ancestor was Volta's pile of metal discs
pando — clonal colony of quaking aspen trees in utah, ~40,000 stems from one root system weighing 6,000 tons
great pacific garbage patch — accumulation of microplastics in north pacific ocean roughly twice the size of texas
dealey plaza grassy knoll — mound of earth in dallas where jfk assassination occurred on november 22, 1963