Re: Seymour,Sybil,Muriel
Malcolm Lawrence (malcolm@wolfenet.com)
Wed, 17 Dec 1997 22:02:14 -0800
Brendan McKennedy wrote:
> I don't mean to sound crass, but speaking of Nirvana, could we maybe relate this to Mr.
> Cobain? His faulted wife that he apparently loved so much, his sudden ability to express
> the art that he loved, and then a bullet to his brain. Was he too big for this world too?
The homesteaders on the list will have heard me offer this before, but since the name has
come up again and there are a lot of new listmembers I thought I'd mention that I wrote a
very long essay (18 page Word document) a couple of years ago called "Death Is Not The End:
Love In The Time of Suicide (Last thoughts on Jerry Garcia & Kurt Cobain)" which I have on
my website: The direct link to it is:
http://www.wolfenet.com/~malcolm/death1.htm
It's a gigantic piece which took me six months to write. I edited it as best I could, yet
it's length makes it pretty unappealing for mainstream publishers, and god knows I've tried:
The Atlantic, Harpers, Granta, Playboy, Psychology Today, Rolling Stone, Spin, Utne, etc. I
touch on everything from the forces of World War II that basically created the baby boom,
clear up to the 90s and deal with it in a sociological way, not too dissimilar from a
head-on collision between Lester Bangs and Greil Marcus. I've had a lot of genuinely touched
people write very loving thank you notes to me and very humbling expressions of gratitude to
the piece, and sometimes I think that that's one of the reasons why I stay on this list. So
that whenever Kurt's name comes up I know it's my turn to be Catcher.
Have a good holiday season everyone. And let's all be careful out there, eh?
Take care,
Love,
Malcs