Heroes and Villains
George Bigelow also made his last public post on SI on July 25, 2002 and to the casual observer it might appear that he was carried off by the same storm as Tim, he wasn't, I assure you, he did post again in a clubhouse several times thereafter, his last message was on August 12,2002. I sent a post to George, privately, I don't know if he will ever answer but in reading the posts made by George I realized that his life and death on SI were linked to Tim Luke's in a unique fashion.
George is gone but google has an infinite capacity for love, to understand George and his life in this land you can listen to him. This passage was lifted, intact, from the single link that google.ca provided (this is known as a googlewhack) in return for a search that used George's email address, which I found in an old SI post. It is excerpted from a message that was written by George...
"As time smiles by, I find more and more of the true beauty in this lifetime rests within the nature of sharing those precious, human vulnerabilities we all keep in our secret heart. I believe there is a concentric benefit to our spirits whenever this occurs. These things elevate us, leading to nobility in the celebration of discovering we are all a part of each other. It takes deliberate courage to profess such sensitive and loving emotions."
It does take courage to speak out, what George never mentions is that some speakers never drift from a carefully prepared script, a script that lays out a path of destruction for neophytes in the new land, we choose our heroes, our villains choose us. |
