I am tired of the mind viruses that are crippling people living in the western world — especially in my own nation. Sadly, Australia is becoming known as a nation of whingers.

I know were I to pierce that hide I would undelve intestine, bolus, bile, blood, paramecia — and yet the breathing animal body bears more, which now I crave.

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(but the last two are not interchangeable in formal registers)