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OMGosh! What have I done, starting a Neal Stephenson book at the end of May?!? This is clearly a summer, "to be read when I have oddles of time" book but I couldn't resist.

"Are we mannish monsters or monsterish men." - the Lapinduce

The Julian Chapter - everything I hoped it would be and more. My students, who are involved in a read-aloud of Wonder (very involved!) will flip out when they find there is a Julian Chapter.

"You know how diamonds-how all crystals-grow, Laurette? By adding microscopic layers, a few thousand atoms every month, each atop the next. Millennia after millennia. That's how stories accumulate too. All the old stories accumulate stories. That little rock you're so curious about may have seen Alaric sack Rome; it may have glittered in the eyes of Pharaohs. Scythian queens might have danced all night wearing it.

"You know how diamonds-how all crystals-grow, Laurette? By adding microscopic layers, a few thousand atoms every month, each atop the next. Millennia after millennia. That's how stories accumulate too. All the old stories accumulate stories. That little rock you're so curious about may have seen Alaric sack Rome; it may have glittered in the eyes of Pharaohs. Scythian queens might have danced all night wearing it.

I am really enjoying this book...made me pull out my childhood copy of A Child's Garden of Verses.