"Every position must be held to the last man: there must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight on to the end."
Earl Douglas Haig, Order to the British Army, 12 April 1918
So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since the former it is not, and the latter are no more.
Some say Citizen didn't respond, not because he didn't want to, but because he couldn't. The sheer force of him having a good day was too much, and he decided that his life could only go up from this point. He went out to join a Captain Beefheart cover band, and started to rock. He kept rocking until his band made a name for itself, and eventually wound up being the first band to play on Mars. Did he name the album after the iconic "Spiders From Mars" from David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust phase? No, he did not. Citizen hated David Bowie, and instead named it Rock Lobster, after the best song by the B-52s.
This is especially true for people like me whose achievement of a great day is requires making someone else's day measurable worse.
"Every position must be held to the last man: there must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight on to the end."
Earl Douglas Haig, Order to the British Army, 12 April 1918
So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since the former it is not, and the latter are no more.