Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.
Lev GrossmanThe new Web is a very different thing. It's a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter. Silicon Valley consultants call it Web 2.0, as if it were a new version of some old software. But it's really a revolution.
Lev GrossmanThatโs what death did, it treated you like a child, like everything you had ever thought and done and cared about was just a childโs game, to be crumpled up and thrown away when it was over. It didnโt matter. Death didnโt respect you. Death thought you were bullshit, and it wanted to make sure you knew it.
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