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An Excerpt
Jul 24, 2013The introduction to The Book of Immortality is now available to read at Scribd .
(Please note that there is a prologue that comes before the intro, but to read that you’ll either need to see if it’s up on Google Books or in the “look inside” feature on Amazon, or who knows, maybe it’ll surface somewhere else.)
There’s one line in the prologue that has now been stretched into an article that will be in issue #8 of Lucky Peach magazine.
This is what my office floor looked like when I was editing the intro:
This is what I looked like when I finished editing the intro:
