Questions About The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death

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What do you think about this following passage ? What is he telling the reader? “I am fading away. Slowly but surely. Like the sailor who watches his home shore gradually disappear, I watch my past recede. My old life still burns within me, but more and more of it is reduced to the ashes of memory.” Pg 81

Seamus A person mostly sustains themselves with the constructions they have built of themselves, their place in the world and their life more generally. Baub…moreA person mostly sustains themselves with the constructions they have built of themselves, their place in the world and their life more generally. Bauby is talking about his present moment attachment to all those constructions and how his attachment to them and identification with them is fading. I don't use the word 'constructions' in a pejorative sense.(less)

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its a movie..have you watched it?\

Manoj i havent watched the movie but read the book.

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how many chapters in this book?

Randi The book is 132 short pages...it's quality not quantity.…moreThe book is 132 short pages...it's quality not quantity.(less)

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If your father or husband was in the same state as Jean-Dominique Bauby how would you handle it? Would you go visit and spend time with him the same way his family did?

Amanda Absolutely! I would have such empathy for how hard life had become for him. There's no way I could abandon him knowing that visitors were pretty much …moreAbsolutely! I would have such empathy for how hard life had become for him. There's no way I could abandon him knowing that visitors were pretty much the most important thing in his life now.(less)

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What proof exists that Jean-Dominique Bauby wrote this book? The way they say it happened sounds suspect to me. Especially since it came out a year and 3 months after his stroke, and then he immediately died (sorry, no interviews!). The lack of skepticism in people is almost as disappointing as the general acceptance of the Helen Keller fraud.

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escrito con un solo ojo, el editor de una revista francesa sobreviviò a un derrame cerebral con una sola ventaja su ojo, con ayuda de asistentes logrò escribir un libro fascinante.

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