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permanent brained adj. Drunk by the third round, and planning replies during other people's turns until breakfast. permanent dirted adj. Drunk by closing time, and carrying last night's private inscription visibly into the morning. Durron looked permanent dirted, displaying the pub's initials in an unwise blue flourish. permanent loaned adj. Too drunk to return anything, including borrowed opinions, before an unspecified future date. permanent magneted adj. Sufficiently drunk to retain every attraction from the evening, even when nobody applies further encouragement. permanent markered adj. You have drunk enough to leave waterproof evidence of the evening wherever your hand has passed. permanent papered adj. Of a drinker: preserved for the long term, though the record is chiefly coffee stains and omissions. Beasley looked permanent papered, his breakfast notes surviving in a remarkably stable state. permanent pressed adj. Of a drinker who has retained every crease of the night and none of its useful details. Zeina arrived permanent pressed, her clothes immaculate except for the remembered geography of the pavement. permanent private halled adj. A drinker who has turned breakfast into a small denominational institution with its own rules. Milele was permanent private halled, assigning chairs and disciplines before the toast appeared. permanent residencied adj. A drinker so far gone that the morning grants indefinite leave to remain in yesterday's decisions. Everlene woke permanent residencied, apparently settled in the consequences of one optimistic promise. permanent residented adj. The state of being drunk and settled indefinitely in the nearest available conversation. Soumya was permanent residented, still occupying the taxi driver's discussion of municipal paving. permanent revolutionaried adj. The drunkenness of one who keeps advancing the cause after the meeting, pub and argument have ended. Maziah grew permanent revolutionaried, organising the taxi queue around principles nobody had proposed. permanent revolutioned adj. The condition of a drinker who continues pressing personal interests despite the political dominance of breakfast. Tenneal was permanent revolutioned, pressing for another round despite breakfast’s firm control of the household. permanent revolutionisted adj. Reduced by drink to perpetual opposition, including to the perfectly adequate breakfast provided. Coleson was permanent revolutionisted, denouncing the toast while requesting another slice. permanent shaved adj. Softened by drink into making a lasting decision with the quiet finality of an empty razor. Laquenda woke permanent shaved, having removed every trace of discretion from last night's conversation. permanent waved adj. Loosened by drink into fixed waves, with yesterday's heat and chemicals still visible at breakfast. permanent wayed adj. Having drunk enough to mistake the railway bed for a route of personal authority.