جمعه، بهمن ۲۷، ۱۳۹۱

"As animals get bigger, from tiny shrew to huge blue whale, pulse rates slow down and life spans stretch out longer, conspiring so that the number of heartbeats during an average stay on Earth tends to be roughly the same, around a billion. A mouse just uses them up more quickly than an elephant." - Of Mice and Elephants: A Matter of Scale

Around a billion, and I am not sure anymore if the beat in my chest is a sign of life, or a sign of death.