Civilization at last. Or a reasonable attempt at civilization, at least. Mountain Forge is a squat stone blister on the side of a mountain, habitable only because shit runs downhill. Its five hundred inhabitants, mostly male, are there to extract wealth from the stone, and for little else....
Note:if a meet is using a monolift, this gets a little bit weirder. Judges will typically give the SQUAT command as soon as the monolift is out of the way. If you then start to walk it out, that’s reds. You have to tell the judges that you will be walking the bar out (whic...
LECTURE HALL - DAY PROFESSOR KREMPE, a squat little man, paces before the packed galleries of eager young STUDENTS. KREMPE In science, the letter of fact is the letter of law. Our pursuit is as dogmatic as any religious precept. Think of yourselves as disciples of a strict and hallowed ...
God knows how many hours we spent trying to print letters the required, engineering way, with the stems ver- tical, and all the loops, as in "P" and "R", horizontally elongated, so that the lettering looked squat. Worst of all were the ink drawings, which had to be done on linen,...