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"Jeff Miller" wrote in message
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Wolfgang wrote:

"riverman" wrote in message
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...Any ideas of what it would look like?

Tedious.

Wolfgang
who notes that Ernst Mayr and Ossie Davis died a couple of weeks
ago.........odd, who's missed and who ain't.

excellent point...but one must never assume that what's writ hereabouts
has such meaning or revelation, eh?

One must never make ANY assumptions based on what is scribbled here. The
mere act of taking note of it (hinting as it does at the concomitant
requirment of being here) is enough to get one in trouble. One should have
listened to one's mother who, not infrequently, warned one that this is the
sort of place one would end up in if one didn't change one's ways. Prison,
one sometimes reflects, at least holds out the hope (if not exactly the
promise) of rehabilitation. :)

jeff (even tedious has a certain beauty at times, imo...like a 12 mile
walk to catch 6 inch fish g)

A twelve mile walk can have a charm all its own......the more so in a
beautiful setting, in good company, and with the promise of animate jewels
at the halfway mark. Tiring, yes. Tedious......never.

Wolfgang
who knows that tedium is as well defined by slogging through twelve miles of
ernst mayr's annotations.....finding more of ernst mayr at the end of each
excursion.....as anything else.

I've got to search for my remaining "Rage, Fear, & Loathing Ski Club" pin.

--
Stev Lenon 91B20 '68-'69
When the dawn came up like thunder

http://web.tampabay.rr.com/stevglo/i...age92kword.htm

"rw" wrote in message
ink.net...

I think Snedeker nailed it.

It should waste no time in scrubbing itself thoroughly and having a blood
workup done.

Wolfgang
who supposes a reminder that a gram of prophylaxis is worth a kilo of
treatment will have arrived a tad late in the instant case. :(

"JR" wrote in message
...
Wolfgang wrote:
"JR" wrote
but it's very true those interested in Big Bangs might now usefully refer
to HSTI.... :)

History (if there is any worth speaking of in the future) will judge
whether Harry served better as president or precedent.

True, (though I was looking more to the past than the future):

http://tinyurl.com/47y6h

Ah, a VERY Big Bang!

Well, things just get ever more convoluted.

Wolfgang
who would delve deeper into the unraveling of all the mysterious and
surprisingly intertwined hsts, except that he is on vacation........and
knows when he has been trumped. :)

And what will we be doing on July 4th in Aspen:

After Thompson's suicide, attorney saw clues

By David Abel, Globe Staff | February 22, 2005

If one of Hunter S. Thompson's last wishes comes true, the body of
the late maverick journalist will be cremated this week and his ashes
blasted from a cannon across his sprawling ranch in Woody Creek, Colo.

That will be the extent of Thompson's funeral, as he told friends and
family, said George Tobia Jr., a Boston-based entertainment lawyer
who has represented the author for the past 15 years. Tobia said he
has spent a few hours every week, often in the wee hours of the day,
fielding requests from and chatting up the man who created gonzo
journalism.

In a phone interview yesterday, Tobia said only in retrospect does it
makes sense that the 67-year-old author sat in his kitchen Sunday
afternoon, stuck a .45-caliber handgun in his mouth, and killed
himself while his wife listened on the phone and his son and daughter-
in-law were in another room of his house. His wife had no idea what
had happened until she returned home later.

The former Rolling Stone magazine contributor, known for his self-
styled, freewheeling
writing, chronicled the downfall of President Nixon and authored
books including "Hell's Angels" and "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas."

Tobia, 43, who said he spoke to Thompson at least five times in the
last week, as recently as the day before he killed himself, said his
client and friend did not leave a note, only conversations and
obscure directions he had issued to friends and family in recent days.

"This was definitely not spur of the moment," said Tobia, who plans
to fly to Colorado today to help carry out Thompson's wishes. "He
arranged to have things dealt with, and he wanted his family close
by, but he didn't want anyone to know -- he didn't want anyone to try
to stop him. In a weird way, he wanted it to be, I think, a
celebration."

Was there anything specific that led Thompson, the model for a
character in the comic strip "Doonesbury," to commit suicide? Tobia
said he did not know, but noted Thompson has written about suicide
and talked about it with friends.

The decision, he said, had nothing to do with the reelection of
George W. Bush or the current trend in national politics, which
provided a certain grist for Thompson's mill. Nor did he have
significant financial problems. With his land, archives, royalties,
and other valuable possessions, Tobia said, Thompson's estate is
worth millions of dollars.

The best explanation, perhaps, is that in recent months Thompson had
chronic pain from back surgery and an artificial hip. He also broke
his leg on a recent trip to Hawaii and was limping, which made it
difficult for him to travel.

"He didn't want to waste away," Tobia said. "He did not want to exist
as an invalid or as someone who needed constant care. It wouldn't
suit his sense of self."

The one clue, in retrospect, that something changed recently was
Thompson's decision that it wasn't so important that his papers and
archives be sold to the highest bidder, money that would help him in
later years. Last week Thompson told friends and Tobia -- one of the
trustees of his estate -- that it was more important his archives not
be sold piecemeal and that they find the proper home, such as at a
university.

"There was no one thing you would point to and say, 'Oh . . . he's
going to kill himself,' " Tobia said. "It wasn't clear last week
suicide was imminent, but now it adds up."

"I was numb last night," he said yesterday. "But when that settles
in, the phone calls, things start to come back, and things begin to
make sense. . . . We all had hints, but none of us had the full
picture."

The two planned to work together on the third volume of Thompson's
letters, Tobia said. Just the faxes Tobia received over the years, he
said, stack up about 5 feet high. There was also the unpublished
novel, "Prince Jelly Fish," which Thompson hoped to have published.

Tobia first met Thompson while working on a benefit for the estate of
Jack Kerouac.

"I represent the estates of many eminent writers like Jack Kerouac,"
Tobia said. "But [Thompson] was alive; the others, I never knew. I
got to know him. I read him in college. Forming a relationship with
him was a dream come true."
© Copyright 2005 Globe Newspaper Company.
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--
Stev Lenon 91B20 '68-'69
When the dawn came up like thunder

http://web.tampabay.rr.com/stevglo/i...age92kword.htm

"William Claspy" wrote in message
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Add Arthur Miller and Susan Sontag to that list.

The death of the latter reminded me of the absence of our own Willy Loman
(sic :-). Hope he hasn't gone into sales... :-)

sigh Should read "the death of the former reminded..."

I was wondering if Willi had some secrets to tell, there. BTW, where IS the
fishslayer?

--riverman

Jonathan Cook wrote:
Tim J. wrote:

Me neither, but for completely different reasons. Remember a few
posts ago when I said I was a "glass half full" sorta guy?. . .
Here's what really happened, IMO: HST wakes to a beautiful winter
scene in Aspen. He has his morning coffee, Jack Daniels, and
whatever uppers, downers, and hallucinogens happen to still be lying
on the coffee table as he surveys the view out of the large picture
window of the reinforced encampment. After about fifteen minutes, he
thinks, "It just can't get any better than this." and pulls the
trigger. Raoul agrees and does the same.

That's my story and I'm stickin' to it - facts be damned.

You gonna tell that to your kids?

Tell them what?
--
TL,
Tim
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