"THEY died in their homes, not from an assassin’s bullet, and in their 60s, not in their prime.

"THEY died in their homes, not from an assassin’s bullet, and in their 60s, not in their prime. :

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When C. S. Lewis collapsed in his Oxford bedroom, the presidential motorcade was leaving Love Field. When Aldous Huxley requested a final shot of LSD, a TV set in the next room had just blared the news that the president had been shot. And then the coincidence of two of modernity’s keenest…

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