It feels like a break in time. They can't be dead—I just saw them in a movie the other night. How can you just have been reading their latest book and now it's the last one?

Bowie just released an album! How can he possibly go? Doesn't he want to hear what people think?

(and then a robed figure looks over and says IT'S NOT AS IF YOU GET TO FILL OUT A FORM WITH YOUR PREFERRED TIME, YOU KNOW.)