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The Muse asks: If you knew that the world would end tomorrow, what would you do today?
I suppose that I had better read my Bible and learn what I ought to do if the world would end tomorrow! I do hope that if I received such warning, I should be close enough at home to spend time with Sophie and the children, and selfishly I would want Stephen at my side as well, though there are others whom I am sure he would wish to see if it was his last day alive.
But I think that I would prefer not to know, just as a sailor can never know what storms or shoals may wait for him along an unknown coastline. I would be just as happy to meet the end of the world all unaware, looking through my glass at Jupiter or sitting in my cabin with Stephen sharing a glass of wine and a last performance of the Corelli adagio just for ourselves.
I suppose that I had better read my Bible and learn what I ought to do if the world would end tomorrow! I do hope that if I received such warning, I should be close enough at home to spend time with Sophie and the children, and selfishly I would want Stephen at my side as well, though there are others whom I am sure he would wish to see if it was his last day alive.
But I think that I would prefer not to know, just as a sailor can never know what storms or shoals may wait for him along an unknown coastline. I would be just as happy to meet the end of the world all unaware, looking through my glass at Jupiter or sitting in my cabin with Stephen sharing a glass of wine and a last performance of the Corelli adagio just for ourselves.