He buys the men who clear the way, who draw the plans to make it pay

[sovay]

Today I learned that Caroll Spinney and René Auberjonois had died and earlier this week it was D.C. Fontana and last week it was Jonathan Miller and I know age is a thing, but I am sick of people dying who contribute so much to the world while the people who destroy it somehow stick around. Each death of an artist or a writer or an activist or simply a person who was kind, I keep thinking it. Or as the poet said it better in 1941:

for I am stricken
as never before,

by the thought
of ineptitude, sloth, evil

that prosper,
while such as he fall.

—H.D., "R.A.F."

Comments

[gwynnega]

I agree with you and H.D.

[sovay]

I agree with you and H.D.

It is a stupid thing to still be true.

[thistleingrey]

exactly this, yes

[umadoshi]

I am sick of people dying who contribute so much to the world while the people who destroy it somehow stick around.

YES. ;_;

[sovay]

YES.

It feels especially imbalanced these days.

[wpadmirer]

I had not hear about Auberjonois! I adored him. I'm very sorry to hear he's gone.

[sovay]

I had not hear about Auberjonois! I adored him. I'm very sorry to hear he's gone.

I am sorry to have brought the news. I've been trying to figure out if I heard him first in the voice cast of The Little Mermaid (1989) or on the original cast recording of City of Angels (1989). I only knew what he looked like some considerable time later.

[mrissa]

This is something my mother and I have struggled with a lot this year with the loss of my dad. Thank you for quoting this where I could see it, it's very useful.

[sovay]

Thank you for quoting this where I could see it, it's very useful.

You're welcome. I am sorry for your loss.

[oracne]

Yes.

[sovay]

Yes.

Harry, it sucks.

[cmcmck]

We lost Clive James just recently too. :o(

[sovay]

We lost Clive James just recently too.

I saw. He was not part of my landscape, but I understood that he was for so many people, and I am sorry he is no longer part of yours.

[cmcmck]

Such a fine poet and much else beside.

[selkie]

Granted I am extremely not up to physical scratch, but Caroll Spinney felt like an unnecessary gut punch yesterday. Both adults cried. It's 2019; the falcon has said fuck the falconer.

[sovay]

Both adults cried. It's 2019; the falcon has said fuck the falconer.

Caroll Spinney was entirely unnecessary. We already went once through 2016.

*hugs*

[hamletta]

:'(

[sovay]

:'(

*hugs*

[cynthia1960]

Yes, this.