Its use as barter and in religious ceremonies has been traced as far back as 6,000 B.C
And, while Goncourt wanders away sometimes into arabesques, indulges in flourishes, so finely artistic is his sense of words and of the things they represent, so perfectly can he match a sensation or an impression by its figure in speech, Zola, on the contrary, never finds just the right word, and it is his persistent fumbling for it which produces these miles of description
John Green has done an amazing job of making these characters feel so real to me
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Some are so cigarette-like that they even come with a charging case, which is really just a polite modern way of admitting that the battery inside the device itself is tiny