RIP Robin Cook
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- paraselene0
You fight your superficiality, your shallowness, so as to try to come at people without unreal expectations, without an overload of bias or hope or arrogance, as untanklike as you can be, sans cannon and machine guns and steel plating half a foot thick: you come at them unmenacingly on your own ten toes instead of tearing up the turf with your caterpillar treads, take them on with an open mind, as equals, man to man, as we used to say and yet you never fail to get them wrong. You might as well have the brain of a tank. You get them wrong before you meet them: you get them wrong while you’re with them and then you get home to tell somebody else about the meeting and you get them all wrong again. Since the same generally goes for them with you, the whole thing is really a dazzling illusion empty of all perception, an astonishing farce of misperception. And yet what are we to do about this terribly significant business of other people, which gets bled of the significance we think it has and takes on a significance that is ludicrous, so ill equipped are we all to envision one another’s interior workings and invisible aims? Is everyone to go off and lock the door and sit secluded like the lonely writers do, in a soundproof cell, summoning people out of words and then proposing that these word people are closer to the real thing than the real people that we mangle with our ignorance every day? The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It’s getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That’s how we know we are alive: we’re wrong. Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that—well, lucky you.
- Philip Roth, American Pastoral
sorry. anytime anyone says 'don't get me wrong' that passage plays in my head like a fearsome sonata.
- MX_OnD0
So yes, i'm buying that.
skt
(Aug 8 05, 05:11)How much is it costing?
Should I buy my own or would you make a copy for me?
- determinedmoth0
Robin Cook, 59, has died after collapsing while hill walking in north-west Scotland.
You lot buying that?
plamensk1
(Aug 8 05, 05:10)Oh here we go.....
- determinedmoth0
- Philip Roth, American Pastoral
sorry. anytime anyone says 'don't get me wrong' that passage plays in my head like a fearsome sonata.
paraselene
(Aug 8 05, 05:12)That was pretty on the mark.
Who is this chap?
- paraselene0
woody allen on steroids writing novels.
'the man is incapable of writing an uninteresting sentence.'
- plamensk10
He was a non-smoker.
- MX_OnD0
I am a fervent stroker.
plamensk1
(Aug 8 05, 05:19)
- determinedmoth0
I dont think before I bleat.
plamensk1
(Aug 8 05, 05:19)
- plamensk10
and what a coincidence that Mo Mowlam is terribly ill too.
- MX_OnD0
and Mo Mowlam would get it too.
*shuffles off to the cubicles
plamensk1
(Aug 8 05, 05:29)
- plamensk10
You lot remember who John Smith was?
- determinedmoth0
You lot remember who John Smith was?
plamensk1
(Aug 8 05, 05:32)A cold beer?
- determinedmoth0
and what a coincidence that Mo Mowlam is terribly ill too.
plamensk1
(Aug 8 05, 05:29)It must be hectic being you.
- plamensk10
George Galloway better check his brakes.
- kelpie0
yup, Cook was one of the good ones, he'll be sorely missed by the Labour party when they start trying to win people back :/
I find it highly unlikely he was killed by Tony Blair btw. And how do you give someone cancer to shut them up? and John Smith died ages ago. Shaddup.
- kelpie0
If I was Tony, I'd do Galloway in as quick as poss though, right enough ;)
- plamensk10
It wasn't cancer. You shut up!
- kelpie0
alright, brain tumor wasn't it, I forget. You can inject folk with them now then can you?
- kelpie0
political assasination the long winded and inefficient way.
Sounds quite New Labour after all...
- plamensk10
Heart attack, now go back to work.
It's naive NOT to be at least suspicious.
Did he have previous health problems or did this come out of the blue? An experienced climber suggests someone who did this recreationally often without problem.