I read from epistemic to epithelial.

You've never heard of Griffin and Sabine? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Griffin_and_Sabine_Saga

Here are the 2 episodes from "The Allusionist" about epitaphs and engraving.

https://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/epitaph

https://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/precious

The word of the episode is "epistemology".

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