Nov 9, 2021
From the most ancient times, the knowledgeable had preferred to surround themselves with fine woods rather than with mass-produced artificial materials known then as polastine, polaz, and pormbat latterly: tine, laz, and bat.) As far back as the Old Empire there had been a pejorative label for the small rich and Families Minor arising from the knowledge of a rare wood's value. "He's a three P-O," they said, meaning that such a person surrounded himself with cheap copies made from declasse substances. Even when the supremely rich were forced to employ one of the distressful three P-Os, they disguised it where possible behind O-P (the only P) pilingitam.
Heretics of Dune