chapter 18 less than objective admonishments i will spare you of most dates and locations for this inconsequential life , that like all nondescript life will , at its passing , through expedited cremation or the slow natural decomposition of an interred corpse ( skeletal rocks eventually eroding as well ) , be proven unequivocally as nothing greater than a felled tree stripped into the lightness of toilet paper , to which in the wiping and flushing down to waterways is easily transformed into free molecules , atoms , and particles once again .