''I spend a lot of time lying very still and thinking flu-related thoughts. One insight I have had is that all this time, scientists have been telling us the truth: Air really IS made up of tiny objects called "molecules." I know this because I can feel them banging against my body. There are billions and billions and billions of them, but if I concentrate, I can detect each one individually, striking my body, especially my eyeballs...''

-- Dave Barry on Martian Death Flu