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Kaichi (2219 words)
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Eating Words, by fbharjo
skudge's Words, by skudge
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"A fleeting glimmer of light surrounded him, and then the casket thudded back down. Langdon lay panting in the dark. He tried to use his legs to lift as he had before, but now that the sarcophagus had fallen flat, there was no room even to straighten his knees.
As the claustrophobic panic closed in, Langdon was overcome by images of the sarcophagus shrinking around him. Squeezed by delirium, he fought the illusion with every logical shred of intellect he had.
'Sarcophagus,' he stated alound, with as much academic sterility as he could muster. But even erudition seemed to be his enemy today. Sarcophagus is from the Greek 'sarx' meaning 'flesh', and 'phagein' meaning 'to eat'. I'm trapped in a box literally designed to 'eat flesh'."
- 'Angels and Demons', Dan Brown.
"Flesh eating" see sarcasm.