[TruthShallSetYouFree]

how do they get from half-world to whore though?

I suppose it's because they are in a shadow world, not part of real "society."

By the way, where I grew up, in the Bronx (near Yankee Stadium) the word "whore" was pronounced with two syllables. Sounded like "hoo-ah."

[secret garden]

And it was always preceded by : She is SUCH a ...