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not in the mood to read much tonight bc I'm in a sorrowful mood bc I tend to absorb other people's emotions like a sponge (to stay in topic with this book)

the extremophiles scare me. because how can you 'eat' radiation and survive (deinococcus radiodurans btw. renamed the duran duran fan bacteria by me)

in neapolitan 'cantaro' is the toilet (the object not the room or any kind of big cup). it comes from greek 'kantharos' which means 'drinking cup'. you'd be surprised how many words in our dialect come from greek, french, spanish. I'm shocket that nobody ever wrote a book about neapolitan etymology bc it'd be so cool to see the ramification

love that anthology means 'a gathering of flowers'