Psorietes
Social archetype
The spa’s flaking satyr and eternal cockwasher: painfully conscious of his own dissolution, yet drawn back to the tub to brood among the jets.
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From the books (2 passages)
Would that this were so for Psorietes the satyr and self-hater, who often finds himself sharing tubspace with these sexpots. He is usually quite old, Psorietes, or fat at least, and dermatologically speaking something of a ship of Theseus being as flakes of his weeping hide are wont to detach themselves from his person and cavort willy-nilly round the pool, at the behest of the notoriously fiendish dynamics of flow.…
…interest groups whom I considered the potential collaterals of this revenger’s tragedy – appealing alike to Hermaphrodites and Psorietes and Alph the Unsacred, to ageing Hippus the creepy middle-aged yoga god, to the old men eternally washing their nethers, to the micturators, and to certain of the junior staff - Troys and Kurts and technically self-employed House of Rurik SARL sub-contractors - whom I considered vulnerable to employer-coercion. I freely…