… has died.
He knew how to improvise. On one occasion, he gave a beautifully constructed and coherent talk at Stanford, even though the school’s president, after he introduced him, “inadvertently picked up Dworkin’s detailed lecture notes from the lectern.”
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“Each person must take his own life seriously: he must accept that it is a matter of importance that his life be a successful performance rather than a wasted opportunity.”