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Here is bc remembering Bob Lewis:
Error Flynn and I became friends over what turned out to be the last year of his life. We had a lot in common: a love of automobiles and auto racing, an appreciation for classic films and funky old science-fiction TV shows of the 60's and 70's, and the philosophy that every day should have at least one really good laugh. Sometimes even at our own expense, though he was an especially talented lampoonist.
Bob, as he was known outside of the Achenblog, and I became friends in the 21st century manner, developing an email correspondence that evolved into phone calls, DVDs exchanged, and finally culminated in my visiting him for a weekend this past August.
Even seriously ill, he was a gracious host in his little red bachelor house with the big garage just behind and the legendary Tiki bar on the back of his property. We took turns driving his beautiful Porsche convertible around the New Jersey countryside even though at that point riding in it was uncomfortable for him. He insisted that we go. I insisted that we stop somewhere for a nice long lunch outside and enjoy the sunny day. We engaged in some hilarious people-watching commentary, and discussed life and the Boodle. He felt that he had two families -- one biological, one virtual. He didn't see eye to eye with everyone in either, but he loved them both all the same. As with every family, he took the good with the bad.
I could tell that being away from home was tiring him, so when we went back to his house, we stopped and picked up groceries for a big meal to share that night; steaks, shrimp, wine, etc. We had a good dinner, and he confessed to me that he was going to take a leave of absence from work in September, giving me a look that told me he didn't know how much longer he really had. We talked about 2008, but I could tell he didn't expect to see it.
I spoke to him for what turned out to be the last time this past Monday, when he told me he was going into the hospital. He made it clear that he was really tired and worn out and didn't know if he'd be coming out. He didn't sound sad or scared, just rather annoyed by the whole thing. Told me he was considering buying an iPhone so he could keep up with the Boodle from his hospital bed when he got his strength back, but I know he said that for my benefit.
I told some folks earlier today that I like to think that Bob exited through his Fairy Door when it was time to go, pausing like his hero Errol Flynn would have to have a quick look back at us, saluting, then turning and swinging through the doors with gusto.
I should have added that I think he was going to look for whoever was in charge over there, because he wanted to have a word with them. Or several.
Wouldn't it be great if he ran into Marcel Marceau in the Waiting Room Over There? One can only imagine how that conversation would go.
Error Flynn was a hero to many of us in the Achenblog for his fearlessness in expressing himself, whether it was outrage over a perceived injustice, defending someone he felt was unduly persecuted, or taking an unpopular position on a topic. The Bob I knew personally was thoughtful, sensitive and empathic, which is what I believe gave his alter ego such super powers.
Here's Error's Blog, for those of you not familiar with it.
Bob Lewis the man may have left us, but for me it's still Error in '08.
-- bc
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Curmudgeon writes this morning in the boodle:
'All this stuff about the self being illusory to me is all just so much crap, akin to all that blather we had to put up with in the 60s and 70s about whether or not our entire existence all took place inside the mind of a butterfly, and that nonsense. I never found any of that mystical, illusory stuff interesting, because I always thought that even if it were true, it wasn't remotely "useful" in coping with the world, and that we were much better off assuming that what we perceived (more or less) was "reality," and that all the work we'd put into trying to figure it out was worthwhile. The Butterfly Theory, it seems to me, allows one to throw up one's hands and say nothing matters. It's so....1960s.
'I found the quote about there not being a "President in the Oval Office of the brain" interesting. While I might agree with it, I'm not so sure our brains aren't run pretty much EXACTLY on the Bush-Cheney model: a seemingly in-charge President who appears to be running things a good bit of the time, but which is actually commanded very often by darker, hidden forces or even just one single shadowy, malign person with his own nefarious agenda. I'm not being whimsical here: it really DOES seem to me that's how consciousness and the brain work. (And so we all come back to Freud, who is now much-maligned, but who may have been the overlooked Einstein they now claim to be waiting for. Freud may have been wrong about many things, but he may have had the essentially fundamental structure correct.)'
Dude, don't knock the '60s. Some of us like being trapped there!
Freud wrong about many things? Name one thing he was right about. I'm sorry but I think he set the all-time record for Most Consecutive Incorrect Assertions.
To the substance of Mudge's comment: I completely agree that "we were much better off assuming that what we perceived (more or less) was 'reality'." My article wasn't making a case for any airy-fairy theories involving the unknowability of reality. I have little patience with that stuff. It is conceivable that in trotting out the possibility that the self is illusory my language skewed toward overstatement. All it really means is that there's not a single "self" but rather an agglomeration of interconnected, highly distributed, decentralized mental programs.
Glad I cleared that up.
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