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The Last Night of the World

"WHAT would you do if you knew that this was the last night of the world?"

"What would I do? You mean seriously?"

"Yes, seriously"

"I don't know I hadn't thought"

He poured so blocks on the parlor rug in the light of the green hurricane lamps There was an easy, clean aro air

"Well, better start thinking about it," he said

"You don't mean it!"

He nodded

"A war?"

He shook his head

"Not the hydrogen or atom bomb?"

"No"

"Or germ warfare?"

"None of those at all," he said, stirring his coffee slowly "But just, let's say, the closing of a book"