01-27-2022, 04:56 PM
"Died doing what he loved"... being a suicidal fool ?
From Arthur C. Clarke's collection "Imperial Earth"
Duncan had noticed that most of his companions were festooned with equipment designed to capture every aspect of their experience. A couple were obviously
"tapeworms," those peculiar addicts who went through life accompanied by voice-actuated recorders, so that nothing they said--or heard--was ever lost. Unless they could do this, Duncan had been told, they did not believe that they had really and
truly lived ....
Such a backward-looking obsession was typically Terran. Duncan could not imagine anyone on his world trying to encapsulate his whole life so that whenever he wished he could recall any moment of the past
From Arthur C. Clarke's collection "Imperial Earth"
Duncan had noticed that most of his companions were festooned with equipment designed to capture every aspect of their experience. A couple were obviously
"tapeworms," those peculiar addicts who went through life accompanied by voice-actuated recorders, so that nothing they said--or heard--was ever lost. Unless they could do this, Duncan had been told, they did not believe that they had really and
truly lived ....
Such a backward-looking obsession was typically Terran. Duncan could not imagine anyone on his world trying to encapsulate his whole life so that whenever he wished he could recall any moment of the past