I suspect that Nobody is no longer with us,
since he was actively editing Rascal’s book
and website when the great silence began
around April 16th.
To borrow from Shelley and modify slightly:
ON NOBODY NOWHERE,
WHO DESIRED THAT ON HIS TOMB
SHOULD BE INSCRIBED—
'Here lieth One whose name was writ on water.’
But, ere the breath that could erase it blew,
Death, in remorse for that fell slaughter,
Death, the immortalizing winter, flew
Athwart the stream,—and time's printless torrent grew
A scroll of crystal, blazoning the name
Of Raven Knight!
(Shelley’s fragment above,
really about the death of Keats,
was destined to be included
in his greatest poem ‘Adonais’
but didn’t make it.)
I’ve written Nobody’s epitaph/euology
several times now,
once because he’d always said
that Everything had already happened:
(somewhere around the middle to end of here):
http://www.toequest.com/forum/cosmol...html#post35821
and again in a fictional story somewhere
around the middle of here:
http://www.toequest.com/forum/your-t...html#post33502
and finally, I put a memorial here:
http://www.toequest.com/forum/your-t...w-here-78.html