It is a terrible disease, one I've witnessed up close in recent years
Larry Send a noteboard - 11/06/2012 10:18:29 PM
It is sad, though in all fairness he hasn't written anything good lately (and, according to people like me, you could edit out "lately" from that sentence).
As a human being, regardless of the quality of his prose, I am sad that someone who has been hailed as a talented writer is suffering from dementia.
As a human being, regardless of the quality of his prose, I am sad that someone who has been hailed as a talented writer is suffering from dementia.
No, I believe he wrote a few really good stories, but it's been about a quarter century since his last classic. But dementia is a sneaky bastard, much worse than cancer in my opinion.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
Je suis méchant.
Je suis méchant.
According to a Brazilian newspaper, Gabriel García Márquez has dementia 
- 11/06/2012 07:29:22 PM
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- 11/06/2012 07:29:22 PM
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Thus confirming what I've thought since reading 100 Years of Solitude
- 11/06/2012 09:46:22 PM
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It is a terrible disease, one I've witnessed up close in recent years
- 11/06/2012 10:18:29 PM
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I don't think dementia is worse than cancer.
- 11/06/2012 10:52:03 PM
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One of my grandmothers died from cancer, the other from dementia
- 11/06/2012 11:47:00 PM
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Ditto. I'm not going out like that (my family knows my wishes) *NM*
- 12/06/2012 12:33:31 AM
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Indeed. Diagnosed with cancer? I'd fight to my last breath. Dementia? I'd look to suicide...
- 13/06/2012 03:34:53 AM
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I think we're approaching this question from different perspectives, Larry
- 13/06/2012 07:11:48 PM
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