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The Triffids are coming!
Here’s a good and science-fiction-worthy development – plants that have a different new way of taking in carbon dioxide (so, next step up from photosynthesis), which makes them literally wax fat. If the first thing that comes to my head is a plant apocalypse I blame sci-fi.
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St. Jerome
I’ve never known anything about St. Jerome’s internal life, and having learned this small bit I’m now very sad for him (and his family, who got fourth place in his affections to food, Cicero, and Jesus). “LETTER XXII. 30 Many years ago, when for the kingdom of heaven’s sake I had cut myself off from……
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Revelge
And the prize for the most sardonic use of “tra-la-la” in a song goes to: Revelge (reveille) by Mahler! https://youtu.be/xglyc6jTid0 English and German lyrics here: https://oxfordsong.org/song/revelge It’s based on a folk song, so the gruesomeness is to be expected, but still.
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