Hi,

> Gone forever. Leaving no more behind. Its too late to write again! You
have
> no mind left! Its just in the dirt, turning into poop. Feeding the plants.
> And don't start the religious thing damn it. Even if they live on, it does
> the rest of us no good.


    I am a little more optimistic about death... The person will never be
gone forever if someone still remembers them !! This is specially true for
writers because all the ideas they have planted will still be among us for a
very long time. Asimov may have made himself "imortal" because of his laws
of robotics. He will be among us for as long as we remember his ideas.
Besides that I have always felt that some have to go for other to come.
Instead of thinking about the lost geniuses try to thing about the new ones
that are coming and using the gone ones knowledge to make a better world.

    Cheer up, James ! Live is beautifull...

Best regards,
Alexandre Guimaraes
alexg@iis.com.br

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