That Bubble Is Me

In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble-organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that bubble is me.

-- Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910), Russian writer, philosopher and social activist, Anna Karenina, C. Garnett, trans. (New York: 2003), Part 8, Chapter 9, p. 729