Re: Bye Bye, Life/Goodbye, Happiness/Hello Loneliness/I Think I'm Gonna Die

On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:10:53 +0000, James Nicoll wrote:

> This is from the other Roy Scheider movie people are likely to
> have seen, ALL THAT JAZZ. ATJ was Bob Fosse's tribute to his favourite
> artist, Bob Fosse [1]. In it, we see episodes from the life of
protagonist
> Joe Gideon as he literally flirts with Death (played by Jessica Lange).
	
> 
> I'm torn between using this to talk about Death as a seductive
> or at least sympathetic creature or self-destructive artists. Ah, the
> artists can wait and if they can't wait, they should know better than
> to mix booze and pills with amateur bomb-disarming: that's a bit of 
> Jackson Pollock art you only get to make once per lifetime.
> 
> I don't really understand where the idea of death as seductive
> comes from. I've never seen a dead body that looked happy, even the ones
> that did it to themselves. Nevertheless, Neil Gaiman's perky gothchick
> Death is popular amongst readers and so is Pratchett's more traditional
> Death. 

But I wouldn't call Pratchett's Death "seductive", although his Death's
granddaughter Susan Sto Helit has her points (as long as she's not using
the Voice and/or the Face on you, or ba****ng you one) and serves as at
least a tem****ary female Death in two great novels, _Hogfather_ and _Thief
of Time_ . . . .

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