And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Family history of personality disorders. Periodic bouts of depression. Multiple injuries including broken bones, burns and severe concussions. Also tropical diseases and infections resulting from a lifetime of trying to live up to his reputation. Diabetes and heart disease in later life, exacerbated by alcohol intake.
Death by suicide was foreshadowed by that of his father and provides insight to the quote above.
He had demons with which to deal. Who does not? Many brilliant people have demons. Ignorance is bliss. He is well-known and produced some "pretty good" work. At best we may have a favorable response for a 2 or 3 sentence post.
...the bell tolls for thee.
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The bell took him out.
ReplyDeleteout in the sun without a hat cooked his brain
ReplyDeleteI am afraid that the decades of hard drinking "cooked" his brain.
DeleteFamily history of personality disorders. Periodic bouts of depression.
DeleteMultiple injuries including broken bones, burns and severe concussions. Also tropical diseases and infections resulting from a lifetime of trying to live up to his reputation.
Diabetes and heart disease in later life, exacerbated by alcohol intake.
Death by suicide was foreshadowed by that of his father and provides insight to the quote above.
He had demons with which to deal. Who does not? Many brilliant people have demons. Ignorance is bliss. He is well-known and produced some "pretty good" work. At best we may have a favorable response for a 2 or 3 sentence post.
ReplyDeleteI did a short essay in English Class about H. blowing his head off. The teach was horrified. I am normal and not a danger to anyone, honest.....
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