The basic beginning material for the Diamond Body is charcoal, reminiscent of the song …

“I’m just an old chunk of coal but I’m gonna be a diamond some day.”

Adano Ley (Swami Nitty-Gritty) followed in the footsteps of his grandfather, only Adano’s footsteps were made in space boots.

Butterflies Need No Taxidermist.

“Why does Christian Dior’s Poison™ come in a dark bottle? To give it a poisonous ambiance? Hmm. Chemically, and more likely, it is to hide the fact that the colour changes in time — a no-no for most consumer products, particularly cosmetics. With time, a so-called Schiff’s base is formed from the reaction of an amine with a carbonyl, but this has no effect on the fragrance or the colour on the skin. Again there is no skin colour change with Elizabeth Taylor’s Passion™, which is actually dark blue in the bottle.”

“Spearmint (Mentha viridis) is a plant of even more vigorous growth than peppermint, reproducing itself by runners in the same manner as peppermint and usually tending to crowd out the latter when the two grow together.”

According to the same source …

“The oil glands are distributed throughout the plant in the same manner as in peppermint, but are rather less abundant.”

“Peppermint is known botanically as Mentha piperita. For distillation purposes two varieties are chiefly grown, the so-called black mint and the white mint. Black mint, which is the variety grown on nearly all the peppermint farms in this country, has dark-purple stems and deep-green, broadly lance-shaped leaves, slightly toothed. The white mint has green stems and light-green leaves, more pointed in form and deeply toothed. The white variety yields the finest quality of oil, but the plant is less hardy and productive than the black mint and is now little cultivated in America, although in parts of Europe it is still a favorite.”

“Oil of peppermint is used in preparing the official spirit of peppermint. The spirit of peppermint is used to disguise the taste of many medicines. The oil is applied externally in case of headache or rheumatism.”