Chapter 22

I can well imagine an atheist's last words: "White, white! L-L-Love! My God!" - and the deathbed leap of faith. Whereas the agnostic, if he stays true to his reasonable self, if he stays beholden to dry, yeastless factuality, might try to explain the warm light bathing him by saying, "Possibly a f-f-failing oxygenation of the b-b-brain," and, to the very end, lack imagination and miss the better story.        

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    我完全能够想像一位无神论者临终所说的话：“白色，白色！爱一爱一爱啊！我的上帝！”——还有临终前突然有的对上帝的信仰。而不可知论者，如果他忠实于自 己的理性自我的话，如果他依赖干巴巴的、丝毫不能引人激动的真实性的话，也许会试图这样解释沐浴着他的温暖的光：“也许是大一大一大脑没一没一没能充 氧。”直到最后一刻，由于缺乏想像力而错过了更好的经历。