'The endings of Dahl’s stories are almost always surprising, even when we know the twist is coming. This talent, it turns out, applied equally to the author’s own life. In a hospital, surrounded by family, Dahl reassured everyone, sweetly, that he wasn’t afraid of death. 'It’s just that I will miss you all so much,' he said--the perfect final words. Then, as everyone sat quietly around him, a nurse pricked him with a needle, and he said his actual last words: 'Ow, fuck!'"
In New York, Sam Anderson looks back on the life of Roald Dahl.
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