i can well imagine an atheist's last words: "white, white!

l-l-love! my god!" – and the deathbed leap of faith. whereasthe agnostic, if he stays true to his reasonable self, if he staysbeholden to dry, yeastless factuality, might try to explain thewarm light bathing him by saying, "possibly a f-f-failingoxygenation of the b-b-brain," and, to the very end, lackimagination and miss the better story.