while im on the topic,

of books, here is one of my favourite paragraphs from one of my favourite books;

"Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair im sitting on. It was built and so it will fall apart. I'm going to fall apart, probably before this chair. And you're going to fall apart. the cells and organs that make you you - they came together, grew together and so must fall apart. We are all going i thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the place and Alaska the girl , because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire and that the cessation of desire would means the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did. Someday no one will remember that she even existed, or that i did. Because memories fall apart too and then we are left with nothing, left not even with a ghost"