false 2855 9 6768 book 1975 A Short History of Decay total:96|5:42|4:40|3:11|2:2|1:1| 96 408 170 10 5 1 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 30 08:01:40 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 04 06:24:28 -0700 2007 A series of epigrammatic reflections on how things fall apart. This is a bleak, atheistic book, but it is strangely comforting and even humorous in its unembarrassed nihilism.

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