Re: rest in peace, Disch

RIP.


--- In [email protected], "Eli Bishop" <ibitzkay@...> wrote:
>
> 
> Maybe everyone here already knows this, but: Thomas M. Disch died two
> days ago in New York, reportedly suicide.
> 
> Along with Delany, Vonnegut, and a handful of others, he wrote things
> that seem to me like some of the greatest treasures of human culture
> in the last hundred years... except I can't really tell, because to me
> they're just like vital organs of my own mind and heart now.
> 
> I knew people who knew him, but I never met him -- and, to be honest,
> I would've been a little afraid to meet him given the opportunity,
> because the bitterness of his public persona had reached Kingsley Amis
> proportions. Reading his online journal was often like looking into an
> open wound, which once in a while would divulge a pearl of humor or a
> ridiculously good poem. Being a selfish reader, among all the pain on
> display what bothered me most was that he had never reconciled with
> Chip (over something that, from the little I know about it, was too
> stupid to repeat). Well, either we're all reconciled in the end, or it
> won't matter.
> 
> I was going to write something about having just seen The Polymath,
> but I'm too damn sad now.
> 
> Eli
>



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