"Bathybius" is a word in ENGLISH
A name given by Prof. Huxley to a gelatinous substance
found in mud dredged from the Atlantic and preserved in alcohol. He
supposed that it was free living protoplasm, covering a large part of
the ocean bed. It is now known that the substance is of chemical, not
of organic, origin.
For myself I couldn't care less, but I have a lover. Not a partner, Susannah, or a friend or a significant euphemism, but the love of my life. And he believes. And I've watched him tie himself in knots, as he struggles to find a place for himself in texts that were written thousands of years ago, with the deliberate aim of excluding him.
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