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Mary Roach is pretty funny, but she’s also got some serious questions. From the front leaf of Spook: “What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that’s that – the million year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness, persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my laptop?”

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, [...]

A few thoughts and resources for anyone thinking about using a Palm as a mobile library.

From Mark Leyner’s book, My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist:
He’s got a car bomb. He puts the key in the ignition and turns it—the car blows up. He gets out. He opens the hood and makes a cursory inspection. He closes the hood and gets back in. He turns the key in the ignition. The car blows [...]

Found in Ryan Boren’s Commonplace Book.
Myself, I think I am somewhere between chapters II and III.

George Gray
I have studied many times
The marble which was chiseled for me—
A boat with a furled sail at rest in a harbor.
In truth it pictures not my destination
But my life.
For love was offered me and I shrank from its disillusionment;
Sorrow knocked at my door, but I was afraid;
Ambition called to me, but I dreaded the [...]