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the slow confetti of everything that ever existed, settling on your bookshelf.
means Fine, dry particles of matter — bits of soil, skin, fibers, and the like — that float in air and settle on surfaces.
from From Old English 'dūst,' going back to a Germanic root (kin to Dutch 'duist' and related to German 'Dunst,' meaning vapor or haze) — the old sense leaning toward something fine and airborne, like powder or mist, before it came to mean the gray film on your shelves. The biblical 'dust to dust' helped fix its association with mortality and decay.
- your skin
- Much household dust is dead human skin cells.
- star stuff
- Tons of cosmic dust fall to Earth daily.
- sahara travels
- Saharan dust fertilizes the Amazon rainforest across an ocean.
- the rule
- Dust always returns; cleaning is a temporary truce.
- old light
- Dust scatters sunlight, painting redder sunsets.
dust bowl — severe drought and wind erosion across us great plains 1930-1939, displaced 2.5 million people
saharan dust — annual transport of 180 million tons of dust from sahara to atlantic, visible from space
lunar dust — fine regolith covering moon's surface, tracked inside apollo 11 spacecraft in 1969