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the slow art of becoming a hoard before you notice you've collected anything
means The gradual gathering or building up of something into a growing quantity over time.
from From Latin 'accumulare,' to heap up — built from 'ad-' (toward) and 'cumulus' (a heap or pile). That same 'cumulus' floats overhead today in the puffy heaped clouds, so an accumulation is, quite literally, a small storm cloud of stuff piling toward the toward.
- glacier engine
- ice sheets are millennia of snow refusing to leave
- compound math
- tiny gains pile into fortunes given enough time
- capital theory
- Marx built an entire critique on its name
- pearl logic
- oysters layer irritants until annoyance becomes treasure
- dust truth
- household dust is mostly your own shed skin
for instance
great pacific garbage patch — estimated 80,000 metric tons of plastic swirling in north pacific ocean
death valley salt flats — concentrated mineral salts from evaporated ancient lakes in california
mammoth tusks in siberia — tens of thousands of preserved remains accumulated in permafrost over millennia