There vats of liquid wait to record the flight of neutrinos from the center of the sun, from exploding stars, atomic reactors and the Big Bang itself, carrying messages through time.
On the day, farmers and villagers made an ash path into the houses and kitchens, then wind around the water vats from the outside.
(I guess they figured some people like to store their coffee beans in vats of liquid nitrogen.
There were many water vats in the garden.
Like their ancestors before them, even the most westernised Shanghainese queue up before bamboo towers of steamed buns, spitting woks of crispy bottomed dumplings and steaming vats of rice gruel, to eat food that proudly declares its Chineseness.
" He took him straight to the king's cellar, and the man sat himself down before the big vats, and drank, and drank, and before a day was over he had drunk up the whole cellar-full.
The glorious juice runs off into subterranean vats.
