bbook: Nate: What about you saying that things happen that leave marks…in people, in space, in time? Brenda: Yeah, that’s physics. Energy affecting matter. Talking to dead people is delusional. Nate: So you definitely don’t believe in any kind of a life after death? Brenda: I think people live on through the people they love and the things they do with their lives…if they manage to do things with their lives. Nate: But that’s it, that’s it? That’s all there is, there’s nothing more, there’s nothing like bigger? Brenda: Just energy. Nate: But there’s no plan, no— Brenda: No, there’s definitely no plan. Just survival. Should I have ordered the salmon? Nate: Uh, I don’t know. How can you live like that? I mean, what if you found out you were gonna die tomorrow? Brenda: I’ve been prepared to die tomorrow since I was six years old. Nate: Really? Brenda: Yeah, pretty much. We never got butter. Nate: Well, why, since you were six? Brenda: Because I read a report on the effect nuclear war would have on the world, and it was pretty clear to me at that point that this was definitely gonna happen. Nate: When you were six? Brenda: And I wake up every day pretty much surprised that, um…everything is still here. Nate: Well, I don’t understand how you can live like that. Brenda: Well, I thought we all did.
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Nate: What about you saying that things happen that leave marks…in people, in space, in time?

Brenda: Yeah, that’s physics. Energy affecting matter. Talking to dead people is delusional.

Nate: So you definitely don’t believe in any kind of a life after death?

Brenda: I think people live on through the people they love and the things they do with their lives…if they manage to do things with their lives.

Nate: But that’s it, that’s it? That’s all there is, there’s nothing more, there’s nothing like bigger?

Brenda: Just energy.

Nate: But there’s no plan, no—

Brenda: No, there’s definitely no plan. Just survival. Should I have ordered the salmon?

Nate: Uh, I don’t know. How can you live like that? I mean, what if you found out you were gonna die tomorrow?

Brenda: I’ve been prepared to die tomorrow since I was six years old.

Nate: Really?

Brenda: Yeah, pretty much. We never got butter.

Nate: Well, why, since you were six?

Brenda: Because I read a report on the effect nuclear war would have on the world, and it was pretty clear to me at that point that this was definitely gonna happen.

Nate: When you were six?

Brenda: And I wake up every day pretty much surprised that, um…everything is still here.

Nate: Well, I don’t understand how you can live like that.

Brenda: Well, I thought we all did.

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