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As for me, let my bones and flesh be burned, and the ashes dropped in the moving waters, and if my name shall live at all, let it be found among Books, the only garden of forget-me-nots, the only human device for perpetuating  this personality. 

         Dr. Frank Crane (1919)

(Yes, I know this is a blog usually concerned only with vampires, but what of us who are not undead, who will not live eternally?)