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What Is Love. Slow Down « Demotivators Blog. Moogaloop.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object) Cigar.gif (GIF Image, 270x338 pixels) The Last Answer | Thrivenotes. The Last Answer by Isaac Asimov — © 1980 Murray Templeton was forty-five years old, in the prime of life, and with all parts of his body in perfect working order except for certain key portions of his coronary arteries, but that was enough. The pain had come suddenly, had mounted to an unbearable peak, and had then ebbed steadily. He could feel his breath slowing and a kind of gathering peace washing over him.

There is no pleasure like the absence of pain – immediately after pain. He opened his eyes and noted with distant amusement that the others in the room were still agitated. Now, with the pain gone, the others were still hovering, still anxious, still gathered about his fallen body –– Which, he suddenly realised, he was looking down on. He was down there, sprawled, face contorted.

He thought: Miracle of miracles! And although that was a humiliating way for an atheistic physicist to die, he felt only the mildest surprise, and no alteration of the peace in which he was immersed. “Yes.” Rainbow-rose01.jpg (JPEG Image, 599x533 pixels) - Scaled (84%) 6292-bf605ead.jpg (JPEG Image, 700x700 pixels)

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