Reading about the mom gathering the ginkgo nuts reminds me a lot of my childhood. Had a giant ginkgo tree in the front yard that eventually started producing fruit and the fruit was just the foulest smelling stuff you could imagine. The nuts inside were good but the fruit surrounding it was just awful smelling and stained.
Have you ever wondered if some languages are just complicated jokes? You know what if every finnish person just speaks a less complicated version when no one is looking?
I wonder what the epidemic's really gonna be. He's not knowledgeable enough to be able to reasonably cure most diseases, so I kind of wonder if it's actually just something like a natural gas leak that's getting into houses/etc.