Quotes Donut - Humans needed water or they would die, but dirty water killed as surely as thirst. You had to boil it before you drank it. This culture around tea was a way of tiptoeing along the knife edge between those two ways of dying.

Humans needed water or they would die, but dirty water killed as surely as thirs... - Neal Stephenson - Quotes Donut

Written By Neal Stephenson

Humans needed water or they would die, but dirty water killed as surely as thirst. You had to boil it before you drank it. This culture around tea was a way of tiptoeing along the knife edge between those two ways of dying.

10 Reads • November 21, 2020