Crap!
You got all kinds of learnin' and you made me look the fool without tryin', and yet here I am with a gun to your head. That's 'cause I got people with me. People who trust each other, who do for each other, and ain't always lookin' for the advantage.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Connie Neil - Dec 12, 2007 5:34:23 am PST #4487 of 28352
brillig
Jars - Dec 12, 2007 5:35:27 am PST #4488 of 28352
Okay, I realise no one deserves it, but if anyone ever really didn't deserve it. Crap.
Polter-Cow - Dec 12, 2007 5:49:20 am PST #4489 of 28352
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Oh, shit shit shit.
Connie Neil - Dec 12, 2007 5:51:53 am PST #4490 of 28352
brillig
Maybe he's kept good notes and outlines
sumi - Dec 12, 2007 7:30:40 am PST #4491 of 28352
Art Crawl!!!
That is just horrible.
Typo Boy - Dec 12, 2007 12:13:41 pm PST #4492 of 28352
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Yeah it is really horrible. Around 59, and he has to watch as his mind and memories slowly dissolve over the next decade. One of nature's cruelest jokes.
§ ita § - Dec 12, 2007 12:17:46 pm PST #4493 of 28352
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Does one watch oneself in this scenario? I've always hoped, selfishly, that if I get stricken with some mentally diminishing affliction that it takes away my awareness that I'm stricken. But that's really asking too much, and it would still rip raw the lives of people that love you.
Connie Neil - Dec 12, 2007 12:19:13 pm PST #4494 of 28352
brillig
It's one of those situations where'd I'd seriously consider removing myself from the playing field before I got to a point where I couldn't take matters into my own hands.
erikaj - Dec 12, 2007 12:26:08 pm PST #4495 of 28352
Always Anti-fascist!
wrod.
Susan W. - Dec 12, 2007 12:27:52 pm PST #4496 of 28352
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I think in the early to middle stages there's a strong awareness of what's happening and what's being lost. On NPR they've had occasional stories the past few years about a man with early-onset Alzheimer's, and that's the impression I got from it. Heartbreaking.