>>222454957I will miss you, you magnificent bastard. When my brother died I had found your work and it spoke to me about how, like, even when everything is super fucked up and grotesque and you feel like you're going to die, there is beauty and there is something grand about staying alive anyway and seeking to thrive. And even if you can't thrive, just survive anyway, even if things will never be as they were in the past.
The past few years I suspected you weren't doing so well. People were being mean when you did interviews. I suspected you had something with your nerves or depression, since you were doing other things and the work tapered a little, but I didn't expect you to die.
I wish I had sent a letter or something at any point these past 13 years, though it would have been in English. I'm glad to see so many people everywhere being as upset as they are. In that way, I don't think we're alone. I think I have had you in my thoughts frequently, often joking, saying "Berserk will never finish," but as another anon had said, I had hoped I would be saying this when I was 50 or something, rather than 29. Rest in peace, you fool, you beautiful, monstrously talented fool.
