The Thing About Life is That One Day You'll Be Dead: A MemoirKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 5. 2. 2008 - 256 strán (strany) 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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... baby , whose average heart rate is 120 beats per minute , makes the transition from a comfortable , fluid - filled environment to a cold , air - filled one by creating a suction 50 times stronger than the average adult breath . I was 3 ...
... baby is , objectively , no beauty . The fat pads that will fill out the cheeks are missing . The jaws are unsupported by teeth . Hair , if there is any , is often so fine as to make the baby ( especially Caucasian babies ) appear bald ...
... baby's neck muscles are strong enough to support its head for a second or two . Babies are born with brains 25 ... baby is born can't get any bigger . The baby's brain quickly makes up for that initial constraint : by age 1 , the brain ...
... baby is dropped , an immediate change from the usual curled posture occurs , as all four extremities are flung out in extension . The " startle reflex , " or " embrace reflex , " probably once served to help a simian mother catch a ...
... baby teeth , which they'll lose before they're 12. By 13 , most children have acquired all of their permanent teeth except their wisdom teeth . The third molars , or " wisdom teeth , " usu- ally emerge between ages 20 and 21 ; their ...
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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 |