“What I expect to happen is that my body will fail, my mind will cease to function and that will be that. My genes will not live on, because I have had no children. I am comforted by Richard Dawkins’ theory of memes. Those are mental units: thoughts, ideas, gestures, notions, songs, beliefs, rhymes, ideals, teachings, sayings, phrases, clichés that move from mind to mind as genes move from body to body. After a lifetime of writing, teaching, broadcasting and telling too many jokes, I will leave behind more memes than many. They will all also eventually die, but so it goes.”

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  • so they're going to publish a collected shorter prose yes
  • please

• April 06, 2013, 9:49pm

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“You’re not really an adult at all. You’re just a tall child holding a beer, having a conversation you don’t understand.”

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  • holding a gin and tonic.

• April 06, 2013, 5:27pm

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