He once quoted--I bowdlerise it slightly--the grim maxim that Most human lives are a short grey arc between domestic spasm and oblivion
to me, but his was much more interesting. We of course disagreed here on occasion, but he was one of the more attractive human beings I have known. His feeling for both written and spoken language---I never heard him speak Japanese, but I can vouch for it in English and German---was unsurpassed. Like him, I do not believe in the survival of the human personality after death; but something of us does survive, for a time, in our friends' memories and in the words we wrote. Sit tibi terra levis (If, improbably, you were buried and not cremated). John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
