I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big card...

I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big card of the ninety-odd elements hung up in the chemistry lab, and all the perfectly good words like gold and silver and cobalt and aluminum were shortened to ugly abbreviations with different decimal numbers after them.

Sylvia Plath Quote About Numbers, Perfectly Good, Gold: I Knew Chemistry Would Be...

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