Hello Paul.

06 Oct 13 08:21, you wrote to me:

PQ>>> I guess it could have been any ugliness that might have tweaked
PQ>>> that memory cell. 
AS>> dirtiness of their own, or untidiness of their place or eating
AS>> process.

PQ> It works in English as well.  Pig, slob, grub, et al, are used as
PQ> insults of the same sort.  I'm aware of the French also using their
PQ> word for 'pig' as an insult.  That meaning wasn't apparent in the use
PQ> in Alexander's prose.  I simply thought that the guy was plain ugly.

"Got drunk like (as?) a pig." is also popular in the context of a wife
criticising her husband.

Aleksej

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