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The very same qualities that have made the “domestic fishes” famous in China have made them infamous in the United States. A well-fed grass carp can weigh more than eighty pounds. In a single day it can eat almost half of its body weight, and it lays hundreds of thousands of eggs at a time. Bigheads can, on occasion, weigh as much as a hundred poun
... See moreElizabeth Kolbert • Under a White Sky
“I don’t consider niggers in the same light as I would a white man,”
William Dalrymple • The Last Mughal
Cocaine was the inspiration for the unnamed drug that causes sudden personality change in Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde—a fact that contributed to its fast-accruing reputation as a virulent new vice of the wealthy and depraved.
Terence McKenna • Food of the Gods
