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"weather or not atoms make life in other corners of the universe,they make plenty else; indeed, they make everything else. with out them there would be no water or air or rocks, no stars and planets, no distant gassy clouds or swirling nebulae or any of the other things that make the universe so usefully material "

I chose this quote because i really think its a good representation of how bill bryson thinks and writes. brandon had had us read a bunch of different chapters from this as well so i have gotten to see how he thinks .i always like it when he sort of explains the obvious but in a cool more interesting way. Like most people pretty much know that everything is made up of atoms but he goes off on tangents that are interesting rather than really boring. it helps the reader to stop and think wow everything really is made up of tiny tiny things and thats kind of cool and something we dont think about too much.

why does bill bryson chose to write about things that he knows most of his readers already know?