THE YOUNG AND PRODIGIOUS T.S. SPIVET( short 10/50 )
Every night in his setting room father took off his boots and muttering some cryptic statements after raising glass of whiskey upto his lips precisely every 45 seconds.
A conversion from a cricket.
Crickets and insects, were my mother's specialty.
Dr Clair spent most of her adult life studying tiny creatures with the magnifying glass, then classifying them into species ... and subspecies.
What if it doesn't exist?
What?I mean, for a year now, you stopped everything to prove that tigermonk cicindele's exist Stopped everything?
What do you mean, in a maternal sense or a scientific one?
What is it that you want me to start doing again? Or else I stopped doing?
I don't know. Your research on the parasitic scolyte catepiller maybe?
Your findings could've saved all the pine trees in Montana. Every other scientific attempt have failed.
Failed? Form the ecologists point of view, maybe.
But from the caterpillar's point of view, looks like a win win situation.
Anyway I never liked pine trees. They're dripy and sticky. Some things are just meant to die.
How my parents ever fell for each other is a mystery.
Points:
cryptic
【SYN】 mysterious : a cryptic message / remark / smile
a cryptic crossword clue
speciality
My speciality is international tax law.
classify
The books in the library are classified according to subject.
Patients are classified into three categories.
maternal
maternal love
I'm not very maternal.
She didn't have any maternal instincts.
mystery
It is one of the great unsolved mysteries of this century.
