While Anthony Mann was living in his dying body, he spent a lot of time in cyberspace. There he was flying free of his increasingly less-useful limbs and from the other limitations ALS imposed on him, participating in the world available to him there, working on computer-related projects and issues, enjoying his freedom and exercising his strengths. He continued his lifelong habit of thinking about his life and actions, analyzing and ordering his experiences, remembering and reliving. When he was ready to seize the opportunity to write a memoir of what he knew would be a...