“How do you know it isn’t true?” Boyles sighed condescendingly. “Does an intelligent man like you really need to have someone else give him the reason?” He raised his eyebrows. “If his life did pass before his eyes, his brain was what saw it. That’s all anybody’s got to see with. If his heart stops pumping, his brain doesn’t get any blood. It can’t work without blood. His brain couldn’t work. Therefore, he couldn’t see his life passing before his eyes. Q.E.D, quod erat demonstrandum, as they said in Rome and your high-school geometry class — what was to be demonstrated is demonstrated.”
