"Today, when we blog about our weight-loss problem and our knitting and our opinion on the president's IQ level, we do it on the blithe assumption that someone gives a shit. But the surprise is that, for every person who's got something to say, it seems there are at least a few people who are interested. Some of them aren't even related."
"What I think is that Sam Pepys wrote down all the details of his life for nine years because the very act of writing them down made them important, or at least singular. Overseeing the painters doing his upstairs rooms was rather dull, but writing about it made overseeing the painters doing his upstairs rooms at least seem interesting."
Yup, true! But the rest of the book is kinda depressing actually. Oh well, let's see how it ends.
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