Renzatic on 29/1/2010 at 01:41
Robot Titties in the Sci-Fi section GO!
theBlackman on 29/1/2010 at 01:46
For GOD's sake. The man was 91. Did you expect him to live forever, or 900 years like Metheusala?
Good writer, good stories, but then Shakespeare wrote some good stuff also. He died even younger.
Life is a terminal illness. NO-ONE gets out of it ALIVE. Get used to it.
Stitch on 29/1/2010 at 02:29
Apparently all the "tragically cut off in his prime" posts are hidden from my view :confused:
theBlackman on 29/1/2010 at 02:38
Nobody is "tragically cut off" in their prime. It's not fate, nor predestination, it's just "You die". Young, Old or in between. There is no "Premature" death. You die when you die.
Perchance by accident, mayhem or murder, but it's your time when ever that occurs and it is never "Premature" or, in most cases, a "cut off in the prime" situation.
The subject may, and may is the operative, come out with some brilliant material if they had lived. But in more cases than I care to recount. Many have been a one-shot wonder. This holds for musicians, artists, and writers.
The whole "Prime" view is a subjective opinion, and has no validity in the real world. If he/she/it lives and produces some new works, and then gets worse as they age, then material done in their "prime" might have some commerce.
Otherwise, it's the opinion of some critics and affieciandos and worth less than the paper it is printed on, or the breath taken to speak it.
Renzatic on 29/1/2010 at 02:47
Quote Posted by theBlackman
Nobody is "tragically cut off" in their prime. It's not fate, nor predestination, it's just "You die". Young, Old or in between. There is no "Premature" death. You die when you die.
Geez. Now I feel bad for taking my name off the organ donor list.
Stitch on 29/1/2010 at 03:23
I no longer believe theBlackman's claim that he doesn't kill time on the internet.
Tocky on 29/1/2010 at 04:24
I always liked the phrase "one day you get sick and you DON'T get better".
Anyway I think he was saying we are all phonies because we aren't really adults we just got older and his catching the kids in the field was just keeping the kid inside us in the safe boundries. That was my interpretation anyway. I do recall feeling a lot of what Holden felt at that same point in my life.
Anyway, as I see it we can never afford to lose good authors.
Martin Karne on 29/1/2010 at 04:37
But wait since when you die, you feed other tiny lifeforms like bacterias, are you really dead or alive spread across bacterias that have your DNA after eating your corpse?
Are you really dead or walking places? Uh? Uh? You looking at me, you looking at me corpse uh?
Tocky on 29/1/2010 at 05:02
Nope. Dead as a hammer. Not one bit of what we truely are left on the earth in any way because what we truely are is the most fragile thing there is- a singular perspective. That can't be regrown in a dish or recreated by computer program or taken apart and spread out. If you make one just like me it won't be me and I will never be again when I'm gone.
Besides, I kill all my bacteria with alcohol. Take that you tiny dull ass singular perspectives.
