On 22 December 2014 at 08:06, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote:

>
> "I do not fear death, in view of the fact that I had been dead for
> billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the
> slightest inconvenience from it."'
>     --- Mark Twain
>
> I have a suspicion that wasn't really Mark Twain, although I know it's
often credited to him. People didn't say "billions and billions of years"
much in those days (they do a lot more now, perhaps thanks to Carl Sagan).
But I'd be happy to be proved wrong - do you know the original source?

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