Things Fall Apart
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How We Disappear: A Personal History of Information by Thomas S. Mullaney; W. W. Norton, 240 pp., $26.99
“You can’t step in the same river twice.” Heraclitus’s adage is true not only because the water that constitutes the river is ceaselessly flowing but also because “you” are never the same from one moment to the next. Cells and atoms disintegrate, and individual human selves are enmeshed in a vast cosmic vortex in which nothing ever remains the same. “Our bodies are deciduous things,” writes T
“You can’t step in the same river twice.” Heraclitus’s adage is true not only because the water that constitutes the river is ceaselessly flowing but also because “you” are never the same from one moment to the next. Cells and atoms disintegrate, and individual human selves are enmeshed in a vast cosmic vortex in which nothing ever remains the same. “Our bodies are deciduous things,” writes T
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