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Woke Up This Morning.(diaries and diarists)(Excerpt)

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Eventually, our species will die out and a new race will arrive to inhabit the planet. This race will have a giant mess to clean up--all the stuff that human beings accumulated in pursuit of pleasure and profit, but for which these new beings will have no use. Huge mounds of motorboats, football stadiums, air-conditioners, sunblock, and other absolute necessities of life as we once conceived it will rise to the skies. One towering, teetering pile will consist of books with mostly blank pages--some of them ordinary notebooks, some expensive leather-bound volumes, some with decorated covers and hand-pressed leaves, some with tiny locks for tiny keys and little loops into ...

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