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“Speaking of the moment when bats ‘fluttered away from the insectivore line and gave rise to ourselves’... ‘What fragment of man, perhaps a useful fragment, departed with them?’” This passage is driving me nuts. Is it saying that bats came about from insects? Then saying that humans came about from bats? “-ivore,” I guess, implies that they fluttered away from eating insects, but I don’t see how that leads to “giving rise to ourselves.” Ultimately, it seems to be saying that bats ate insects then began to feed on us before fluttering away from us. I get that. I’m just uncertain on how the sentences go about communicating that. As a side note, I believe I’ve asked this at another time in another post in a different manner, but how do you handle passages/sentences/etc that you don’t understand? Mark it and return, brute-force it, or maybe even ignore it? I think that for me, there’s a certain level of anxiety with not getting something, particularly literary texts. It really drives me nuts. I enjoy and love chewing on a text, whether it be the slow-burn of reading a big book or chewing on the micro, sentence-by-sentence basis. But the fear of not being smart enough or, rather, being too dumb for XYZ is stressful at times. Maybe it boils down to a lack of patience or maturity, as not understanding something can put me in a small frenzy while simultaneously getting me “stuck” on the passage. It’s hard to progress in a book when I’m obsessing over a sentence I don’t fully understand. Take the opening sentence of The Recognitions. It’s amazing (you can preview the book and the sentence on Amazon if you don’t have it handy; use desktop mode if you’re on mobile). Chewing on that sentence was absolutely a blast. It took me a while to understand what it meant, and I still haven’t gotten around to articulating how the sentence works or what it’s actually saying.

I got this,..

There you'll meet the ghost Slayer Master Faiza. If you haven't completed Morytania Hard Tasks, then you'll need to bring/wear Ghostspeak Amulet. Faiza will give you between 25-50 Ushabtis (think Pokeballs for your Pokedex Slayerdex) depending on your Slayer level 99-120. You can buy more from Slayer Masters at the cost of 20 Slayer points each. The Slayerdex currently has 151 monsters you can collect (the original 151). Monsters with Slayer level 80 or less are really easy to collect their souls within 5-50 kills, so you don't need to be on a Slayer task for them (which doubles the soul chance). If you are level 120 Slayer, then the soul chance is already double (does not stack with being on-task). For extremely high level Slayer souls, the expensive Cursed Amascut Sand can be used to make Cursed Ushabtis, which have a +50% catch rate. Wearing the Corrupted Slayer Helmet has a bonus +5% catch rate. Using captured souls to build your dungeon does count for completion in Slayer Codex, so only offer the soul to the Chest of Souls if you don't want/need that monster in your dungeon.

I got this,..