V.V.(8) sfacim and sewer stories
Michael Perez
studiovheissu at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 24 07:37:56 CST 2001
David Morris wrote:
"Maybe I'm crazy, but I think when Benny says his name is "Sfacim" it
means 'shit.' Shit is closely related to decay/destruction. I'm not
Italian, so I'd have to defer to someone who was raised with the term
as the endearing 'spunky.'"
No, you're not crazy. However, the subsequent two appearances of the
word point to the Hyperarts site definition, I believe, particularly
the one at 140.28 (". . . and if some [sfacim] stays with her and
swells into another little drifter . . .").
Michael
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