Four brief essays by Oliver Sacks on love, legacy, and gratitude written while facing terminal cancer.
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Four brief essays by Oliver Sacks on love, legacy, and gratitude written while facing terminal cancer.
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"In July 2013, Oliver Sacks turned eighty and wrote [a] ... piece in The New York Times about the prospect of old age and the freedom he envisioned for himself in binding together the thoughts and feelings of a lifetime. Eighteen months later, he was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer--which he announced publically in another piece in The New York Times. Gratitude is Sacks's meditation on why life [continued] to enthrall him even as he [faced] the all-too-close presence of his own death, and h...
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Brief personal reflection on sexuality; no romantic or sexual scenes
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Author reflects on his gay identity and conflict with religious upbringing
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Reflections on Orthodox Jewish upbringing and the meaning of Sabbath
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