"Alok-Alok" is a word in HILIGAYNON
alók-álok - To run after each other, one
trying to catch, the other to escape, (as is
often done by children at play). Nagaalókálok silá. They are chasing, running after,
each other. (cf. lagás, lagsanáy).
alók-alók - Desultory, rambling, passing
from one thing or work to another and not
completing any; to work by fits and starts,
to do something in a desultory manner.
Alók-alók nga pangóbra inâ. That is a
poor, jerky way of working. Abáw, natápus
na galî ang baláy nga ginalók-alók níla sa
sulúd siníng limá ka túig. Why! They have
actually finished the house at which they
have been busy by fits and starts these last
five years. Indì mo pagpaalók-alokón ang
mga táo sa íla trabáho. Don’t allow the
men to slacken at their work. (cf. alángálang).
Below lies the dark core, that great iron ball beneath all things. Its compressed weight is fantastic; it is older than time itself. It is a vestige of the blackness that predates all existence, when a formless universe existed in a state of chaotic un-creation, lacking awareness even of itself.
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