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At deuteronomy 2

working out % read is a bit difficult, so i’m not sure

i get what’s happening now

i think

At Numbers 16

Moses has definitely had the most page-time of any person so far

Some laws are quite interesting: what is and is not clean, and how to practice dermatology and epidemiology

Some are less interesting, like how to decorate a tent or dress

Overall, a holy person should always be killing an animal, burning food, and killing other people

Killing is also explicitly forbidden

Yeast is the real villain

Exodus 29

How to build the tent for the ark

God promised the land of israel (much bigger than modern israel) to abraham’s children (include ishmael and isaac)

ishmael: father of arabs

god later changes israel to only be for isaac (no reason given)

Isaac: father of Esau and Jacob (father of Jews)

Jacob tricks his Esau out of his inheritance and lets his mother take the curse for him as punishment

shambles from god (common theme throughout genesis)

At genesis 24

a lot of sacrificing things

a group of men wanted to rape the guests at a man’s house

the man said no, but offered the group his daughters instead

Upto genesis 7

Genesis is not a very feminist book

i am watching Lyndsey Turner’s adaptation

very tense throughout

Every other chapter, the story delves into a different subplot about someone in lima

we have had a doctor called into action at his niece’s wedding and a policeman forced to deal with a mysterious manic migrant

the continuous plot about the titular scriptwriter and his aunt is far more mundane

i presume they will collide

i am watching the max webster portrayal with ncuti gatwa

To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness

The truth is rarely pure and never simple

banging play, am enjoying much

set in miraflores, lima, peru, which is where i am doing my elective

i thought this nobel prize winner would be worth reading

we have met the doctor, a man who’s vices are “science, his family, and the gymnasium”

i hope lima brings this out of me also

why didn’t she just re dye her hair instead of cut it off?

i liked this line:
“It’s so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral than a wedding”

anne’s surname is not “of green gables”

it’s shirley or something much less romantic

perhaps that’s the idea

all potatoes in the world are descended from those in peru

there are more bacteria shapes than bacilli and cocci

club rod
vibrio
spirillum
spirochete
helical
filamentous
hypha
stalk

i’ve read most of this book previously

but i forgot where i was up to

i’m re reading from the beginning

jawfish are the most primitive vertebrates

viscosity of water increases as you shrink

ann is a boring name
anne is a romantic name

everyone is still stupid

being talented and showing it off is wrong

insight and curiosity into a topic that is not his is not insight and curiosity

Intelligence is a big theme so far: everyone else is less, he is more

really captures the mind of a teenage boy

“you would like him”

who am I?

“Good luck” is actually a bad thing to say to someone

goddam and sonofabitch have very different pacing and rhythm to god-damn and son of a bitch

Nails were bitten down

I am a bit lost, as I am listening to this as an audiobook while doing other things

Canadian nationalism is a thing in this?

the point that it is very impressive for a wife to sew many scarfs but a husband to sew many fields is quite clever

Smallpox: Ethiopia was last endemic
Rinderpest: mortality was 90%; last case was in kenya
TTV like miniviruses are carried by nearly everyone and are harmless
Measles SSPE is 1 in 10,000
there are 8 human herpesviruses
UV light can precipitate HSV cold sores
10% fetus are affected by primary maternal CMV
EBV: asymptomatic in child; GF in 25% non child; GF lasts 10-14 days; GF

james is a different story to huck finn:

twists and reveals are gone because they were not unknown to jim

when huck was doing a lot jim is often not, and vice versa, so pages are spent at different times

there are parts that do not align at all

some of jim’s actions have been removed to fit the way everett wants to portray james

This is not the Jim from Huck Finn; this is James from his own story

Jim pretends to be and teaches other slaves to pretend to be stupid
jim does not believe in religion or have any superstition

rotavirus: 10 virions can infect; kills 440,000 annually
influenza: usually >7 days
rubella: bad in 10-16 weeks pregnancy
norovirus kills 50,000 annual
polio: bad in 1 in 1,000; non paralytic is meningitis; 5% paralytic is fatal; became a problem when maternal immunity decreased through hygiene; 1/million live vaccine cause paralytic; still in pakistan and afghanistan

rinderpest is closest to measles
smallpox had 30% mortality
measles needs 500,000 people to circulate