junkpile

Updated: May 14, 2025

Just work that gets us three meals a day and a place to lie down to sleep, then another day of the same grind, then a year of it and years following until our machine is worn out and on the junkpile, means little. "One day nearer home" for such a worker means one day nearer the scrapheap. Such a worker is like the packhorse who goes forward to keep ahead of the whip.

Ralph Parlette - The University of Hard Knocks

The starry heavens which concealed the Deity Himself had become a junkpile full of its fragments. "In the temporary collapse of the banalities that conceal the world from their eyes," thought Dorn, "they're trying to figure out what's really what around them and making a rather humorous mess of it."

Ben Hecht - Erik Dorn