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Oliver Sacks on his terminal liver cancer: ""I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers.

"Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure."

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Random thought: technically, I suppose everything in the Bible that follows the story of Noah counts as "postapocalyptic."