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Vsuresh Posted 14 years ago
Essay & Composition Writing
Meaning
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Please help me with the meaning.
Context: This is lesson, an account by the writer, who is also a journaist, of his experience with Stephen Hawking while he visited Cambridge some time in the past.
The writer gets a chance to meet Hawking and during the conversation, he tells Hawking is very brave considering the fact he has attained great heights despite his disablity. To this Hawking says,"I wasn't brave. I've had no choice."
On hearing this the writer feels like asking a question but doesn't.
Here is the question: "Surely, living creatively with the reality og his disintegrating body was a choice?"
I want to know what it means.
At another place the writer on seeing Stephen Hawking thinks thus: "Before you like a lantern whose walls are worn so thin you glimpse only the light inside,is the incandescence of a man. The body, almost irrelevant, exsists only lie a case made of shadows. So that I, no believer in eternal souls, know that this is what each of us is; everything else an accessory."
Here I am unable to follow the portion in blue.
Please help me with the meaning.
Context: This is lesson, an account by the writer, who is also a journaist, of his experience with Stephen Hawking while he visited Cambridge some time in the past.
The writer gets a chance to meet Hawking and during the conversation, he tells Hawking is very brave considering the fact he has attained great heights despite his disablity. To this Hawking says,"I wasn't brave. I've had no choice."
On hearing this the writer feels like asking a question but doesn't.
Here is the question: "Surely, living creatively with the reality og his disintegrating body was a choice?"
I want to know what it means.
At another place the writer on seeing Stephen Hawking thinks thus: "Before you like a lantern whose walls are worn so thin you glimpse only the light inside,is the incandescence of a man. The body, almost irrelevant, exsists only lie a case made of shadows. So that I, no believer in eternal souls, know that this is what each of us is; everything else an accessory."
Here I am unable to follow the portion in blue.
Top answer
org/wiki/Amyotrophic_lateral_sclerosis It is very rare that patients with this disease live as long as he has. Had the journalist asked his question, I would be willing to bet that Professor Hawking's answer would be unprintable because of its wrath. " The meaning of this sentence alludes to a choice the journalist feels Hawking may have had and made.
- org/wiki/Amyotrophic_lateral_sclerosis It is very rare that patients with this disease live as long as he has.
- Had the journalist asked his question, I would be willing to bet that Professor Hawking's answer would be unprintable because of its wrath.
- " The meaning of this sentence alludes to a choice the journalist feels Hawking may have had and made.
- It appears as if the journalist is equating living within a disintegrating body with some sort of choice.
- What are (were) Hawking's choices?
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Hawking, nearly 70, suffers from a form of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyotrophic_lateral_sclerosis
It is very rare that patients with this disease live as long as he has.
Had the journalist asked his question, I would be willing to bet that Professor Hawking's answer would b
It is very rare that patients with this disease live as long as he has.
Had the journalist asked his question, I would be willing to bet that Professor Hawking's answer would b
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