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** A childhood friend of his had a brother with an incredibly extensive one that was lethally booby trapped.
* [[Puff of Logic]]: From near the beginning of ''A Short History Of Nearly Everything'':
{{quote| "It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you." }}
* [[Purple Prose]]: Quoting Manning Clark's in ''Sunburned Country''.
* [[Repetitive Name]]: In ''Neither Here Nor There'', he passes the time in a Swedish hotel room by noting the number of repeated names in a phone book. Turns out there are not a lot of unique surnames, in Sweden.
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