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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 2h

PAIN THRESHOLD - A cornered animal might seek a hiding place that has some sentimental value.

disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 5h

TRAP: CANAL - The reeds bend forlornly toward the sand. You see slabs of concrete, north. In the east, the city centre hums to you.

SHIVERS - The constant, distant song. Louder on this part of the coast. Nearer somehow.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 8h

YOU - I'll think about it.

ELECTROCHEMISTRY - Good! *Thinking* about yummy cigarettes in your mouth is the next best thing.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 11h

ELECTROCHEMISTRY - You must have touched upon an entirely new way of moving the human body! Every motion is pumping your brain full of endorphins…Open your eyes to the pioneering glory of HARD STYLE!

YOU - Open your eyes and dance like you've never danced before.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 14h

ELECTROCHEMISTRY - A golden sun melts down your throat, its rays filling your nostrils with sunshine. Your stomach melts from it -- into a happy gooey mess! So does your mind, all the bad things are melting. You're you again. A *real* cop. A real detective.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 17h

YOU - “Look, this village isn't what it used to be. It's a dilapidated shit hole.”

WASHERWOMAN - “You watch your tongue, boy. This village has held up much better than *some* people.” Even with her cataracts she can pierce right through you.

PAIN THRESHOLD - Damn, that's cold.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 20h

KIM KITSURAGI - The lieutenant politely averts his eyes as you make a drug deal in a house of worship, but make no mistake: He's *less than thrilled* about it.

ELECTROCHEMISTRY - Fuck what the lieutenant thinks! We're off to the races, baby!

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 23h

ELECTROCHEMISTRY - Now that you've acquired some stimulants, it's time for a little pick-me-up.

YOU - What…but right here? Now?

ELECTROCHEMISTRY - See, that's your problem -- a lack of confidence. Speed can help you with that *and* Kim. It can help you with EVERYTHING.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 1d

YOU - “Here's the money for the spirits.”

ROSEMARY - He hands you the bottle. “Jus' make sure to *enjoy* that one, friend!”

PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT - Son, you will NOT kill yourself with this. Not today.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 1d

ELECTROCHEMISTRY - Feels good, doesn't it? But you know what would feel even *better*?

YOU - Winning the game?

ELECTROCHEMISTRY - *Drugs*. Specifically uppers.

KIM KITSURAGI - While you daydream about speed, the lieutenant has built himself a formidable economic engine…

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 1d

YOU - How do you bring about those *circumstances*?

EMPATHY - *Incrementally*.

ELECTROCHEMISTRY - YAWN. You'd get there faster with a little *speed*.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 1d

SHIVERS - MY HEART IS THE WIND CORRIDOR. THE BOTTOM OF MY AIR IS RED. I HAVE A HUNDRED THOUSAND LUMINOUS ARMS.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 1d

PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT - What are you doing? You're a police officer, not a pansy ornithologist. The only birds you should be looking for are healthy women of child-bearing age.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 1d

HAND/EYE COORDINATION - There's an opening, if you just move fast enough…If not, the lieutenant's got her on his sights.

PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT - Host Almighty, don't count on *that*! You saw the binoclard can't shoot for shit!

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 1d

SHIVERS - WHAT IS THIS PLACE TO YOU?

YOU - It's free. That's good enough. I could live here.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 1d

GASTON MARTIN - “At the mercy of a cocaine-snorting tyrant who emptied the treasury so he could sleep on a bed of gold?”

ELECTROCHEMISTRY - Cocaine? Cocainum? Sounds like our kind of king. And -- just imagine! -- what kind of cocaine a king would have had…

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 2d

ELECTROCHEMISTRY - Let's face it, you're near death yet bathed in the golden rays of stately grandeur. Like a late summer's day. Like a Daddy-O…

INLAND EMPIRE - Like a Tequila Sunset.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 2d

PAIN THRESHOLD - Bullets have bitten little pieces out of him. It must have been excruciating, especially the hip…Before you is a temple of pain that knew little tenderness in life.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 2d

PAIN THRESHOLD - There's pain in there, if you want some. That much you know.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 2d

ELECTROCHEMISTRY - You must have touched upon an entirely new way of moving the human body! Every motion is pumping your brain full of endorphins…Open your eyes to the pioneering glory of HARD STYLE!

YOU - Open your eyes and dance like you've never danced before.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 2d

SHIVERS - The voice again, more urgent now: 'Nay!'

INLAND EMPIRE - Just a moment. That voice isn't human, and it's not saying 'Nay!' -- It's saying 'N-n-n-neigh!'

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 2d

KIM KITSURAGI - “Enforcing proper conduct in an amateur pétanque game is not something the RCM involves itself in. It doesn't matter.”

PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT - Doesn't matter?! Integrity in sports *doesn't matter*?! Hold me back, sonny-Jim…GODDAMNIT, it's *all* that matters!!!

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 2d

KLAASJE - “Drinking harder makes you do more speed. It's quite the combination. We also had sex.”

ENDURANCE - Whoah. After so much drinking *and* drugs -- how did they manage it?

YOU - “Hold on. After so much drinking and drugs…*how?*”

KLAASJE - “*Untraditionally*, officer.”

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 2d

YOU - “I'm going to let you rest now Mr. Dros.”

THE DESERTER - The cape flaps around his face, in a gust of wind. His back is slouched and his mouth open.

ENDURANCE - The strength has all gone out of him—just frail old bones in a sack of tracksuit trousers and a wind breaker.

disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 3d

SHIVERS - GO TO THE CHILDREN OF THE BIG SEA.

RHETORIC - The big sea…The Big C? That can only mean one thing: Communism.

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