We don't know if he was altered on alcohol or drugs or anything […]

For example, the creation of historical preservation districts or the passage of antiweed ordinances can be used to preserve a desired rural character.

Truth never reveals itself either to the enthusiast smitten with his own reveries; to the fellifluous fanatic enslaved by his prejudices; to the vain glorious mortal puffed up with his own presumptuous ignorance […]

Mark was a tattooed, hairy, nuggety, foul-mouthed Aussie bloke (you're probably thinking, as opposed to all those gentle, feminine men who work at the sewage treatment plant).