Another giant passes from this earth.
Dammit.
Arthur Miller. Another poet, another conscience, another brilliant mind lost at a time when our world so desperately needs his voice.
Some deaths you just feel - even though you didn't know them personally. Some deaths just reverberate and ripple across the universe and you're suddenly aware of an emptiness...of a presence that should be there, but is not.
His words changed my young life. And, I believe, his words will continue to change our world. I know our world is better for having had him in it.
UPDATED: Ross does manage to put it all in perspective, however:
"Still--he wrote some of the world's best literature and got to fuck Marilyn Monroe.
At least he had a good run."
Thank you, Ross. We should all be so lucky.
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