"The Blog of the Dead is an incomplete, but not false, image of the blogosphere as Shem Pên conceived it. In contrast to Newton and Schopenhauer, your ancestor did not believe in a uniform, absolute canon. He believed in an infinite series of canons, in a growing, dizzying net of divergent, convergent and parallel verses. This network of blogs which approached one another, forked, broke off, or were unaware of one another for centuries, embraces all time. We do not waltz in the majority of these blogs; in some you lead, and not I; in others I, and not you; in others, both of us."