...but one of the last other survivors of the old Flatline, Comatose, Torpor & Drowse as it existed in the Seventies is pulling the ripcord at the end of next month. He's about the last comrade (a couple of years younger than I am) I esteem: the other two survivors are both females who hit their Peter Principle ceilings a long time ago, and whom I am determined to outlast. It's getting goddamned lonely here: now I think of it, the Eighties cohort, or all of it I was on cordial terms with, has also passed from the scene.
It's Lonely at the Side.
cordially,