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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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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
by Jean-Dominique Bauby
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