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Oct 9Liked by Aristotle Evangelos

An utterly ridiculous story! Who would believe such silliness?

However, in my research, I discovered that both the Arkians and the Barkians are direct descendants of Ancient Rome. As I'm sure you are aware, all peoples on the Italian peninsula have a deep-seated fear of ice. Ice in drinks, especially on a hot day, is considered to be especially dangerous. I would therefore posit that the Arkians and Barkians share a very silly genetic memory of ice-o-phobia.

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Well, in traditional European medicine, you certainly didn't want to mix your hot and cold humours, so there might be something to it.

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