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Jan. 27th, 2009 08:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Reading the article here I went through a variety of stages. At the end of page one I felt that I would rather be dead than be in the same situation as Clive, trapped in a world that I could not understand, constantly living in terror and incomprehension. And then by the end of page two I felt that maybe it would be something I could live with. And then by the end of the article I just didn't know.
It's a fascinating piece, and it highlights just how fragile the world we live in is, dependent as we are on a small and easily damaged lump of grey porridge-like good.
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It's a fascinating piece, and it highlights just how fragile the world we live in is, dependent as we are on a small and easily damaged lump of grey porridge-like good.
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Date: 2009-01-27 09:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-27 09:37 am (UTC)Think of it this way: every "reawakening" of Clive is a fresh consciousness doomed to die in the next five seconds, and not have a great time in between.
The strain on the person's carers must be immense, too. I'd never want to cause that.
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Date: 2009-01-27 09:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-27 10:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-27 11:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-27 11:45 am (UTC)A very powerful article. I was really confused for a minute there because I was sure I'd read this in the Guardian. I had, Sacks is a canny bugger.
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Date: 2009-01-27 11:59 am (UTC)