You know, my first thought when I heard the news (after the "ohmygod NO!") was "Shit. I was afraid of this." HST was (oddly) on my short mental list of people I was worried about in the wake of the election, which felt like the final crushing refutation of that odd romantic faith he'd somehow managed to sustain (amidst all his rage) about the essential nature of America. (I can't stand to go back and reread his piece written just before the election, in which he predicted a Kerry victory...)
I mean, I don't know. On reflection, I think that may have been a factor, but it was much likelier to have been about his realization that his body simply would no longer allow him to live the way he wanted. Even if he didn't have a terminal diagnosis of some sort, still I don't think the slow descent into infirmity and dependency is something he would've wanted to stick around for.
And the sentences. Yeah. I have to go re-buy all his books, dammit, because I lent them to various friends over the years and never got them back, and I want to reread them now.
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branchandroot
Re: Rambling grief
Date: 2005-02-22 12:34 pm (UTC)I mean, I don't know. On reflection, I think that may have been a factor, but it was much likelier to have been about his realization that his body simply would no longer allow him to live the way he wanted. Even if he didn't have a terminal diagnosis of some sort, still I don't think the slow descent into infirmity and dependency is something he would've wanted to stick around for.
And the sentences. Yeah. I have to go re-buy all his books, dammit, because I lent them to various friends over the years and never got them back, and I want to reread them now.