It's big. Massive. Gargantuan. And it is expanding. It's my magical book - your's too, if you still don't know it. Some chapters are nice, some aren't, and some are rewritten each day.
If I still haven't told you yet about this one book I'm reading, let me tell you what it is - Internet.
Yep, the way I see it, Internet is one large black hole of a book - there's no telling when the book will reach its final version (and fans of Harry Potter claim their wait for the seventh book was agonising!).
So from the Internet today I read, discovered and learnt several things - just from a few minutes online. My most interesting discovery today is a word which I rarely (maybe never) came across before: extant.
Dictionary.com says extant means still existing, or surviving. Apparently extant must not be used in direct replacement of the word exist, as extant also implies survivor qualities. Hmm I guess you can head to Dictionary.com for better understanding.
But if I understand the concept of the word enough, I'd say extant is perfect for describing my big, magical book, the Internet...
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