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You don't have to be profound for the sake of the profound: Death. In its real essence, death is the most boring topic.
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such long, articulate-looking comments !
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looks like bernie Madoff
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That is not what he meant at all you buffoon.
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How is it disturbing? There are more disturbing thoughts out there.
Your quote is from a 'vampire that cannot die'.
That quote is how they see mortaliy, a vampire from what I understand is limited to the amount of 'living' they can do, being considered 'undead'. Vampires really have a purpose in order to 'live' on where as JB would like to live forever to watch the world develop and change. His is purely a personal experience and development. Vampires are fictional, JB is in the real world.
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Angel - so he would like to live forever, to enjoy beauty and relish experience ad infinitum. There is a disturbing psychology here for a man in his sixties. I see you are 18 - perhaps you may see it differently when you have more years on you. My Nosferatu quote confronts the narcissism of the kind exhibited by JB.
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He is a writer. He explores in his mind, the world around him. He cannot help but think about the day when he will die. But he takes it one step further and wonders that after he has left this world, that he is able to find such beauty on a cloudy day, he can't help but wonder what will happen.He would love to live forever to experience the world, he doesn't want to leave. To not be in this world seems to be a terrible thought to him. I have thought the same thing, which isn't that surprising.
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Yea it is planned but do they tell him the sort of questions they will answer? Why bother if he is given months to think about every answer for every question. You might think its complete rambling, but what exactly are you doing? Hmm looks like your rambling with 8 lines. Pot calling the kettle black perhaps?
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No - because unlike you I'm not British.
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What the hell is your point? This is an embarrassingly silly comment.
Nesapstar 3 years ago 3
type in the name of any other fine living author working today and up come 10-20 odd interviews, plus clips of their resolutions, their averments and pontifications. john banville, though? practically nothing. surely irish television provides rolling coverage of his pronouncements, surely!
in short, could you upload everything of his that you have? i would appreciate this very much. thanks.
Pangloss2020 3 years ago