I wrote the following eulogy on December 29, 1998. Emily Elizabeth Jacobs was killed by a drunk driver early the morning of December 27, 1998. She was 18. For three summers during junior high and high school, I attended a so-called "program for talented youth", Duke University&

A campfire song I learned at Lake Celeste as a child: I'm up here in the nuthouse my brains are in a rut my counselor says I'm crazy but he's just off his nut I'm just as sane as you are and

Compare Shakespeare, Hamlet: What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon: