Re: “fat vortex ring”

[Mike Weaver]

His aura, man.

Since a vortex ring is hollow centred what comes to mind is a contented 
but empty smile. His is fat because he's always stoned?

On 23/08/2025 23:57, Robert Mahnke wrote:
> “Yet to look at [Mucho Maas] now, in the twilit living room, gliding like a large bird in an updraft toward the sweating shakerful of booze, smiling out of his fat vortex ring’s center, you’d think all was flat calm, gold, serene.” (CoL49, ch. 1)
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> What is his fat vortex ring?
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> Sent from an iPhone; pls xcse typos.
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