Instant stone (just add water) (2018)
I never realized that "quick" means "alive" in quicklime, quicksilver.It's interesting because I now see the same pattern is used in old italian (mercury is "mercurio" but also "argento vivo", living silver, and calcium oxide is "ossido di calcio" but also "calce viva", living lime).As far as I understand, in hungarian ("fürge ezüst" -> "lively silver") and german ("quecksilber" -> quicksilver) the same pattern exists for mercury, though I didn't find the calcium carbonate equivalent.I imagine there is some shared (alchemic?) tradition there, and I wonder what other "alive" things exist.