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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death:
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
Elaine Shircliff
I think he is trying to say that the life he knew no longer exists. The longer he lives in the coma the further away the life he once lived gets.
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