When I was in the shower today, I was thinking about this book I'm reading, 'The Nuclear Age' by Tim O'Brien, and how it would make a good movie. Cinematic and all. He's talking about the mountains above the town where the action takes place, which made me think of Dante's peak, which Thomas and I watched a couple weeks ago. I remembered the scene where Pierce Brosnan et al. are on a boat crossing a lake that's turned acidic from the volcano and the boat is corroding away and I thought that if anyone wanted to make a serious attempt to boat on an acid lake they'd get a gold plated boat, which reminded me of the time, junior year of high school, when I wanted to make aqua regia to dissolve gold and it never happened because no one had any good leaf handy, which reminded me of the part in gravity's rainbow where the guy gets a bottle of aqua regia poured over his head. somewhere in here I carefully washed both ears.
I was out today with Joey and Thomas eating Haagen-Dazs and the value of gold came up, prompting me to give the preceding explanation. Welcome to my mind.
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