It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself ap…

Bill Bryson
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It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you. ✨ Bill Bryson (2014). A Short History of Nearly Everything, p.3, Lulu Press, Inc
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