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I check Wiki deaths obsessively, because the news only talks about Trump, all the while great figures are slipping away from us. Did you know Art Bell died? A few months back Philip Roth died. It makes me sad. It all reminds me of how sad I felt the day Prince, The Macho Man Randy Savage and Rowdy Roddy Piper died. I know they didn't all die on the same day, but like Janis Joplin said . . . It's all one fuckin day, man . . . And also
John Ashbery, who I never cared for, Ursula Le Guin. A bunch of twenty-something racehorses. Feel free to add your own list to my morbid obsession, and true human sorrow.
You can’t be remembered until you die. For a lot of people, and not just people in third world shitholes, dying is the best thing that ever happened to them... if jfk and mlk weren’t assassinated I don’t think they would be as revered. John Lennon, Kurt Cobain, 2pac.... list goes on and on. Gotta be dead to be a legend.
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What's the line in Camus, Shem would know, where he says something about how a man published a book and then killed himself, thinking it would make him immortal, but the book was judged meritless.
I was at a Barnes & Noble in Greensboro when some hot young thing, a college girl working there, said out loud, in a let me have your attention voice, that Philip Roth was dead. I went to my friend's mom's house to use the Internet, because I love me some death, and watched an interview done that day on the BBC with his ex-wife Claire Bloom, and the interviewer said something like, Do you think the young generation of readers today will condemn Roth's writings as the rantings of a sexist white man? And somebody said, that question is irrelevant, the man created art. -- I think he was right.
Yeah, dyings not enough, but it certainly helps...
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Kurt Vonnegut wrote some good books that were good before he died.
He even predicted that he might die some day. What a prophet.
