Operating perhaps on the premise that if a smear of chocolate or splash of milk is therapeutic, a bath in the stuff is akin to a weekend at Davos, many spas, where the current food craze was born, now slather their clients from head to heels in every kind of delicacy.
My eyes searched higher until they reached Banksy's famous 1997 mural "Mild Mild West". Recognized as Banksy's earliest large work, the image depicted a stuffed animal akin to Snuggle, the fabric softener bear, poised to hurl a Molotov cocktail at three riot police officers.
The "Subway to the Sea": By now the words have an almost mythical ring to them, with the Westside extension of L.A.'s subway system so long delayed and so much desired that it has almost come to seem like the stuff of legend, akin to the Stairway to Heaven or the Low Road to Loch Lomond.
This is somewhat akin to stuffing most of the M.R.O.
Contrary to what your sister says, this is not akin to stuffing your purse at a restaurant buffet, because there, under our system of government, attendance is still optional.
And with yields at next to nothing, this is akin to stuffing cash in a mattress.
(There are about a hundred mocked-up "Arab" cities, mostly in the US and UK, where soldiers train. Some have washing lines and wandering donkeys for added verisimilitude). Add to this a vast capacity for intelligence-gathering and you are faced with something akin to the stuff of nightmares.
In the case of Stephen King, who writes 2,000 words every morning and describes fiction as a sort of waking dream, the invocation of a writing routine is akin to the stuff you do before you get into bed: "your schedule," he says, "exists in order to habituate yourself, to make yourself ready to dream just as you make yourself ready to sleep".
But just as adults have a hard time putting down their iPhones, so the device is now the Toy of Choice — akin to a treasured stuffed animal — for many 1-, 2- and 3-year-olds.
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