I didn't interact with the tinman as i was strictly a reader until just recently. i always regarded him as a bit distorted, but not really strange. i've run across people much like him in my life. so, thumbing through his deathsite i found the whole thing merely unusual and wierd.
not all on the links on the left work. one that doesn't work is the IQ. all that comes up is another link in the upper left that i ignored at first. after a few more tries that rendered the same result, i clicked on it. it is a list, with him included, of members of TNS.
CLICK: at that point it all made sense to me.
I am merely left with a sense of mourning now. what ifs and if onlys lie in that sense. too late we think of the possibilities we may have had of making a difference in someone's life.
he and i have a lot (and i mean a lot) in common. we also are different in some important ways.
He seemed to be bothered by what he interpreted as growing incapacity. if he had understood his real plight as i think i do he may have been thankful that he hadn't had to deal with those things all of his life like i have. could i have made a difference?
don't know.
certainly won't be part of any legacy i leave behind.
this will be working on me for a while and has already taken this day.
"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money."
(Alexis De Tocqueville)
