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>Hello again Mr Barnes, > >Yes, it is me, the one who drew you up so sharply >about the limner folding his chalk drawing. > >I have nearly finished 'Nothing to be Frightened of' >which I am enjoying a great deal, & this from a reader >to whom books by old men considering death are not >new; but unless you surprise me in these last pages I >think I have an alternative to your list of 'good' >deaths: to us creative men, lucky enough to be foolish >enough to be excited for an entire lifetime by flying >in the face of our own reason & insisting instead in >considering our artistic product as having a worth of >its own (providing satisfaction if not happiness), >isn't dying while being distracted from our own >extinction's horrors by the process of being a better >writer, painter, musician, poet, as good a death as >one can hope for? > >With fond empathy, >Paul

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