Comments on That Other World

Wow. Another post from Charles that doesn't suck. I think as long as you fstay away from titties and communism you do pretty well, Charles.

My mom is dying of pancreatic cancer. Slowly, but inexorably. She is on a very different planet, "impossibly far away from our world of health and heavy things."

It's even remoter than that. When a loved one dies you are irremediably cut-off from them in any physical sense. It's not that they've gone to some inaccesible place, it's that they've escaped time altogher.

Whatever you've shared experientially with them, is also lost. The experiences that you used to recollect in coversation can no longer be discussed, because the dialogue has ceased. The connection has been severed and is no longer shared. The experiences become yours and yours only.

In fact, you lose a part of yourself as well. The part of you that was remembered only by that person. I recently had a conversation with my mother in which she related something from my childhood that I had no recollection of [and neither did my sister]. When she dies, the memories she has of me, that are hers alone, will also be forever lost.

Rushdie (not Rusdie).

Nice post, though.

I think it's sad that when Charles posts a really deep interesting story, nobody posts to it. It's like people have come to expect... I'll be charitable here... a certain kind of story and when the don't get it, they ignore him. His great architecture/photography pieces don't seem to get a lot of traffic either.

Keep trying, Charles. Keep mixing it up. I'm sure I won't like some of your pieces, but I'll keep rooting for more stuff like this.

I love all your stuff, Charles. Keep it up, champ!