Hello listeners. This is Sam and let's get started with a quick review from last time.

We had Tyro. Tyro that means a beginner or novice, so someone who's new to something, a neophyte or a newcomer.

Verdant, that means newcomer. vegetation. A bait, that means becoming less intense or widespread,

especially when talking about something that's quite hostile, like a storm.

Plattitude, platitude, that's a remark or statement that's been used so often that it's become a

cliche, it's not very interesting or thoughtful.

So now to episode 74 and to get us started on this Wednesday I want to read a bit from one of my favorite books which is a book called The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury.

And it sounds like a nerdy science fiction book,

but really, while it's set in a sci-fi,

sort of world is set on Mars, it's really not a normal kind of science fiction book.

It's really more about the poetry and the beautiful use of language than it is about the specifics of hard science fiction.

So yeah, I love this quote and you'll get an idea of how well written the book is probably.

There was a smell of time in the air tonight. He smiled and turned the fancy in his mind. There was a thought. What did Time smell like? Like dust and clocks and people.

And if you wondered what Time sounded like, it sounded like water running in a dark cave, and voices crying, and dirt dropping down upon hollow boxlids and rain.

And going further, what did time look like?

Time looked like snow dropping silently into a black room, or it looked like a silent film in an ancient theatre,

100 billion faces falling like those New Year balloons, down and down into nothing.

That was how time smelled and looked and sounded.

And tonight, to Mar shoved a hand into the wind outside the truck. Tonight you could almost taste time.

So that was our lovely quote from Ray Bradbury from the Martian Chronicles. And our first new word is Plymouth. Plimate, that's PLU M M E T, and it's a verb and it basically means to fall or drop down at great speed. So to Plumet isn't just to fall. I mean if I if I knock my glass

off the table now I wouldn't necessarily say it plummeted to the floor. I would just say it fell on the floor.

Plymouth implies usually you know a very fast drop and it's more of an extreme sort of word so you know if

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