The Thing About Life is That One Day You'll Be Dead: A MemoirKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 5 de febr. 2008 - 256 pàgines NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Weaving together personal anecdote, biological fact, philosophical doubt, cultural criticism, and the wisdom of an eclectic range of writers and thinkers, a book that expertly renders both a hilarious family portrait and a truly resonant meditation on mortality. |
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... Prime of Life , or Why Children Don't Like Spicy Food Sex and Death ( i ) Hoop Dream ( ii ) Bloodline to Star Power ( 1 ) XV 3 9 12 14 19 935 23 27 29 32 34 37 Adolescence Rattlesnake Lake Boys vs. Girls ( ii ) Why vii.
... don't want to romanticize him . He's life force as life machine exhausting and exhaustive . Rest in peace ? Hard to imagine . Mark Harris , trying to explain why he thought Saul Bellow was a better writer than any of his contemporaries ...
... don't even notice . Your ears contain sensory hair cells , which turn mechanical fluid energy inside the cochlea into electrical signals that can be picked up by nerve cells ; these electrical signals are deliv- ered to the brain and ...
... don't age are some of the more primitive ones : sharks , alligators , Galapagos tor- toises . There are different theories as to why humans age at the rate they do : aging is genetically controlled ( maladapted indi- viduals die out and ...
... grow more slowly . From age 30 until 80 , fingernail growth slows by 50 percent . Contrary to myth , Dad , your nails and hair don't keep growing after you die . Boys vs. Girls ( i ) The XX and XY Decline and Fall ( i ) II.
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19 | |
Motherhood | 27 |
Hoop Dream ii | 34 |
Rattlesnake Lake | 43 |
3 | 48 |
Boys vs Girls ii | 49 |
Superheroes | 59 |
27 | 112 |
Notes on the Local Swimming Hole | 121 |
Hoop Dream viii | 135 |
Decline and Fall iii | 139 |
The Thing About Life Is That One | 151 |
Boys vs Girls iv | 160 |
29 | 163 |
Death Is the Mother of Beauty | 173 |
Hoop Dreams iv and | 66 |
Ye Olde MindBody Problem | 78 |
Decline and Fall ii | 87 |
14 | 91 |
Bloodline to Star Power ii | 98 |
19 | 103 |
Sex Changes Everything | 104 |
The Trouble with Being Food | 111 |
How to Live Forever i | 181 |
114 | 184 |
How to Live Forever ii | 189 |
Bloodline to Star Power iii | 200 |
The Story Told One Last Time | 211 |
Notes for Eulogy for My Father | 218 |
PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 227 |
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The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead David Shields Previsualització no disponible - 2009 |
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