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frozen limestone that learned to look expensive and never let it go
means A hard, crystalline metamorphic rock prized for sculpture and building, polished to a luminous sheen — or a small glass sphere children play with.
from From Latin 'marmor,' which passed into Old French as 'marbre' and arrived in Middle English. The Latin is likely borrowed from Greek 'marmaros,' a word tied to 'marmairein,' to gleam or sparkle — so the very name praises the way the stone catches light. The English 'l' is an oddity: 'marbre' slid into 'marble' through dissimilation, the tongue tiring of two r's so close together and swapping one for an l. The toy marbles take their name from the stone, even though most were never made of it.
- former life
- started as seabed shells crushed by deep heat
- david's secret
- Michelangelo's flawed block others had rejected
- glows faintly
- light sinks in before bouncing back out
- acid hater
- lemon juice etches its surface dull
- name origin
- Greek for shining stone
carrara marble — italian quarry in tuscany producing white marble since roman times, used for michelangelo's david
taj mahal — built in agra, india in 1653 entirely from white marble inlaid with semi-precious stones
parthenon — ancient greek temple in athens built 447-432 bce with pentelic marble columns
marble runs — popular toy/game where children race glass marbles down tracks, peak popularity 1980s-1990s