In this group of mushrooms, the attachment of the gills to the stipe is decurrent.

Workshoes covered with dust and some oil of engines—the crumpled jeans nearby, belt, blue railroad hank, knife, comb, keys, switch keys and caboose coach key, the knees white from Pajaro Riverbottom finedusts, the ass black from slick sandboxes in yardgoat after yardgoat—the gray workshorts, the dirty undershirt, sad shorts, tortured socks of my life.

Here's a cipher message. Probably Playfair.

Although Chalcedon seemed to offer the possibility of their reconciliation with the Great Church, this hope was not fulfilled.