maybe a metaphor?

[hoveringsombrero]

but saying frozen black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, with a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs of a lake,

seems wrong somehow

"she wanted us to jump into that goddamn frozen tundra of a lake"

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[mfree.livejournal.com]

Wha?

[eris.livejournal.com]

from some reality show
where they were made to swim across a bit of the river thames