July 19, 2025

  [This is a part taken from Henry Clemson’s personal diary]

  Water. A basic necessity. Something everyone needs to survive. Without it, you would shrivel and up and your skin would cling to your bone, and your veins would thin into wire. It is terrible, utterly terrible, to choke on your own salted, wrinkled tongue. And yet, and yet. I must say, and with complete honesty: Water is a horrific element of tangible terror.

  Every adjective of water should be translated from: clear, clean, blue and calm, into murky, slimy, deadly and grotesque.

  Water is a monstrous and evil thing.

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  I fear it more than death.

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  November 3, 2026

  [This is a part taken from the New York Times]

  Henry Clemson (world famous hydrologist) tragically died of rabies just last night. He contracted the disease on July 1st, 2025, when he was at the west coast of South Africa studying the difference in the water there and was bitten by a rabid seal. He is the only human who got rabies from a rabid seal, making it a highly unique case. He had fought against it for over a year, eventually succumbing to its effects. The truly ironic (and tragic) part of this disease is the hydrophobia that the victim attains because of it, giving them an intense fear of water, to the extent that they have to be forced to consume it.

  Truly, he was a wonderful man and an incredible author. His novel “The Wonders of Water”, published March 2025, is an excellent piece that describes the greatness of the water we drink every day. Truly, this is a sad day for hydrologists worldwide.