Better upload to a file-sharing site and send the link. Thanks and regards.
On 2/20/15, Uma phago <phago....@gmail.com> wrote: > Please share those books to me also. > > On 2/20/15, Sucharu <sucharugupta1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello, >> Please share these books. >> Thanks, >> Sucharu >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On >> Behalf >> Of Vidhya Y >> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 9:39 AM >> To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues >> concerning >> the disabled. >> Subject: Re: [AI] Oliver Sacks Writes: 'I am now face to face with dying. >> But I am not finished with living' >> >> his books are really amazing. >> I have most of the books. >> if any one wants these books, >> please reply to this mail so that I can share them. >> >> On 2/19/15, avinash shahi <shahi88avin...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> A MONTH ago, I felt that I was in good health, even robust health. At >>> 81, I still swim a mile a day. But my luck has run out -- a few weeks >>> ago I learned that I have multiple metastases in the liver. Nine years >>> ago it was discovered that I had a rare tumor of the eye, an ocular >>> melanoma. Although the radiation and lasering to remove the tumor >>> ultimately left me blind in that eye, only in very rare cases do such >>> tumors metastasize. I am among the unlucky 2 percent. >>> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/19/opinion/oliver-sacks-on-learning-he- >>> has-terminal-cancer.html I feel grateful that I have been granted nine >>> years of good health and productivity since the original diagnosis, >>> but now I am face to face with dying. The cancer occupies a third of >>> my liver, and though its advance may be slowed, this particular sort >>> of cancer cannot be halted. >>> >>> It is up to me now to choose how to live out the months that remain to >>> me. I have to live in the richest, deepest, most productive way I can. >>> In this I am encouraged by the words of one of my favorite >>> philosophers, David Hume, who, upon learning that he was mortally ill >>> at age 65, wrote a short autobiography in a single day in April of >>> 1776. He titled it "My Own Life." >>> >>> "I now reckon upon a speedy dissolution," he wrote. "I have suffered >>> very little pain from my disorder; and what is more strange, have, >>> notwithstanding the great decline of my person, never suffered a >>> moment's abatement of my spirits. I possess the same ardour as ever in >>> study, and the same gaiety in company." >>> >>> I have been lucky enough to live past 80, and the 15 years allotted to >>> me beyond Hume's three score and five have been equally rich in work >>> and love. In that time, I have published five books and completed an >>> autobiography (rather longer than Hume's few pages) to be published >>> this spring; I have several other books nearly finished. >>> >>> Hume continued, "I am ... a man of mild dispositions, of command of >>> temper, of an open, social, and cheerful humour, capable of >>> attachment, but little susceptible of enmity, and of great moderation >>> in all my passions." >>> >>> Here I depart from Hume. While I have enjoyed loving relationships and >>> friendships and have no real enmities, I cannot say (nor would anyone >>> who knows me say) that I am a man of mild dispositions. On the >>> contrary, I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent >>> enthusiasms, and extreme immoderation in all my passions. >>> >>> And yet, one line from Hume's essay strikes me as especially true: "It >>> is difficult," he wrote, "to be more detached from life than I am at >>> present." >>> >>> >>> Over the last few days, I have been able to see my life as from a >>> great altitude, as a sort of landscape, and with a deepening sense of >>> the connection of all its parts. This does not mean I am finished with >>> life. >>> >>> >>> On the contrary, I feel intensely alive, and I want and hope in the >>> time that remains to deepen my friendships, to say farewell to those I >>> love, to write more, to travel if I have the strength, to achieve new >>> levels of understanding and insight. >>> >>> >>> This will involve audacity, clarity and plain speaking; trying to >>> straighten my accounts with the world. But there will be time, too, >>> for some fun (and even some silliness, as well). >>> >>> Continue reading the main story >>> >>> Continue reading the main story >>> >>> I feel a sudden clear focus and perspective. There is no time for >>> anything inessential. I must focus on myself, my work and my friends. >>> I shall no longer look at "NewsHour" every night. I shall no longer >>> pay any attention to politics or arguments about global warming. >>> >>> This is not indifference but detachment -- I still care deeply about >>> the Middle East, about global warming, about growing inequality, but >>> these are no longer my business; they belong to the future. I rejoice >>> when I meet gifted young people -- even the one who biopsied and >>> diagnosed my metastases. I feel the future is in good hands. >>> >>> I have been increasingly conscious, for the last 10 years or so, of >>> deaths among my contemporaries. My generation is on the way out, and >>> each death I have felt as an abruption, a tearing away of part of >>> myself. There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there >>> is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they cannot be >>> replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate >>> -- the genetic and neural fate -- of every human being to be a unique >>> individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own >>> death. >>> >>> I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one >>> of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and >>> I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought >>> and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special >>> intercourse of writers and readers. >>> >>> Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this >>> beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege >>> and adventure. >>> >>> >>> >>> Oliver Sacks, a professor of neurology at the New York University >>> School of Medicine, is the author of many books, including >>> "Awakenings" and "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat." >>> >>> A version of this op-ed appears in print on February 19, 2015, on page >>> A25 of the New York edition with the headline: My Own Life. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Avinash Shahi >>> Doctoral student at Centre for Law and Governance JNU >>> >>> >>> >>> Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing >>> accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: >>> http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_acc >>> essindia.org.in >>> >>> >>> Search for old postings at: >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ >>> >>> To unsubscribe send a message to >>> accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in >>> with the subject unsubscribe. >>> >>> To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, >>> please visit the list home page at >>> http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org >>> .in >>> >>> >>> Disclaimer: >>> 1. 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