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RIP Joe Rollino
Topic Started: Jan 12 2010, 07:31 AM (143 Views)
John Galt
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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/crusher_killed_vnPIe00iPE1Vcq7vR6OcoI
Let us begin anew, remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness.
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Red Rice
HOLY CARP!!!
Sounds like an amazing guy.
Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool.

I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss!

- Cecil Lewis
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ivorythumper
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
Wow. RIP
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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Frank_W
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Man... What a bummer. :(
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
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John Galt
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Frank_W
Jan 12 2010, 10:49 AM
Man... What a bummer. :(
Agreed.

It's amazing that someone who was almost 105 still had a lot of good living left to do.

I hope I have that much vitality to the end, no matter what age.
Let us begin anew, remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness.
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Red Rice
HOLY CARP!!!
It always seems so inappropriate to me when larger-than-life people die in such mundane ways. Like Patton getting killed in a jeep accident, or T.E. Lawrence crashing his motorcycle.
Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool.

I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss!

- Cecil Lewis
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John Galt
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More in-depth story on this amazing guy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/12/nyregion/12ironman.html?em
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