“Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.”
"Gods and Greens" (1989)
1990s, A View from the Diner's Club (1991)
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Source: Sazaly Abu Bakar (2020) cited in " 'More studies needed on virus mutations' https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2020/03/572140/more-studies-needed-virus-mutations" on New Straits Times, 6 March 2020.
Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Evolution from Our Microbial Ancestors (1986)
“A hundred years die in a moment, just as a moment dies in a moment.”
Mueren cien años en un instante, lo mismo que un instante en un instante.
Voces (1943)
“That which we die for lives as wholly as that which we live for dies.”
“Every man dies, not every man really lives”
Source: Braveheart
spring from a kind of mother fixation as well as a terror of the cold. He was a bull of a man much given to boats and riparian dalliance, but he had bad circulation. He had other things too, including a Chinese-style priapism which enabled him to copulate, usually in public, six times in a row, the secret being his failure to detumesce. This, of course, like acne and the common cold, can be a symptom of tertiary syphilis, which Maupassant certainly had.
Non-Fiction, Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Selected Journalism 1978-1985 (1986)