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Absurdity, God and the sad chimps we are

James DuBois wonders whether meaning can be found in the face of the apparent absurdity of life.

After speaking with our obstetrician, I left my pregnant wife and flew across the country to be with my mother when she died. I arrived about two hours too late. When I saw her body later that day, I was shocked that I felt no more toward the body than I did toward the table it lay on. It was like a seashell abandoned by its occupant, only not beautiful. It was decisively not her.

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