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All of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and specified time to live. |
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Sometimes it was as long as a year; |
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sometimes as short as twenty-four hours, |
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but always we were interested in discovering |
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just how the doomed man chose to spend his last days or his last hours. |
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I speak, of course, |
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of free men who have a choice, |
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not condemned criminals whose sphere of activities is strictly delimited. |
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Such stories set up thinking, |
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wondering what we should do under similar circumstances. |
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What associations should we crowd into those last hours as mortal beings? |
