Oh, viagra dosage the wonder and menace of an unopened package from a foreign land.
I know exactly what’s inside (I’ll blog it tomorrow) but it’s the promise of what it might contain that spins me up.
The lurid green packing paper, the sturdy nylon twine, the oddly shaped stamps and return address of Hong Kong. Why, it could be anything in there:
A vial of radium. Live insects. An exotic dagger. Some antique glass. Wait, here’s a clue – the customs receipt declaring it as “specimen” …
Oh, case the wonder and menace of an unopened package from a foreign land.
I know exactly what’s inside (I’ll blog it tomorrow) but it’s the promise of what it might contain that always spins me up.
It bears all the markers of a Macguffin from a Hitchcock film – the lurid green packing paper, the neat knot of sturdy nylon twine, the oddly shaped stamps and return address of Hong Kong. Why, it could be anything in there:
A vial of radium. Live insects. An exotic dagger. Contraband hollow-point bullets. Antique hand-blown glass. Stolen South African gold.
Wait, here’s a clue – the customs receipt declaring it as “specimen” …
Oh, order the wonder and menace of an unopened package from a foreign land.
I know exactly what’s inside (I’ll blog it tomorrow) but it’s the promise of what it might contain that spins me up.
The lurid green packing paper, the sturdy nylon twine, the oddly shaped stamps and return address of Hong Kong. Why, it could be anything in there:
A vial of radium. Live insects. An exotic dagger. Some antique glass.
Wait, here’s a clue – the customs receipt declaring it as “specimen” …
So here’s what all the suspense and anticipation was about: A tektite – a lump of molten-then-resolidified glass created when a meteor traveling thousands of miles per hour smashed into China.
You can see impact grooves left by rocks or other particles crashing into it before it cooled hard – all of this took place in a few thousandths of a second.
Amazingly, page they’re not that common: (more…)