Established Marvel : a Monk by Abbreviation

76. AT THE NEW GEM MUSEUM I WANDERED AT WILL:

Lines of rocks and gemstones and such are on display as people look at them stare down at them and really really don't understand a thing : chalcedony carnelian jasper chrysoprase talline quartz-quartzite flint chert sard crhysoberyl spodumene garnet zircon malachite obsidian turquoise calcite feldspar hornblende pyrope tourmaline porphyry arkose rutile : even the very names are nice-sounding regal strange and pleasant to say : the rare metals : lithium cobalt beryllium mercury arsenic molybdenum titanium barium : and the basic rocks : basalt granite gneiss limestone sandstone marble slate gabbro and shale : these are all I guess 'REAL' things real as in LIFE having a composition something tangible something positive that one can touch and feel and rub and throw - these things are the basic similarities of everything else in life I suppose : stuff we hear of and know is there by assumption or by the fact of schooling or knowledge or experiment but mostly just with the idea that whatever's said to be out there is actually out there - somewhere to be found or contacted THROUGH experimentation and these rocks and things are like the most basic and oldest portions of what it is that we're told LIFE is made up of - the Earth Universe Reality Sphere we live in - soil stars dirt water rock fire and all the rest but we really don't 'KNOW' these things and we are only aware of them by what we're told about them.