Anyone's demise or vanishment is in some small way tragic but the word "tragedy" requires greater measure for its use. ... Van' s great mind now gone. Tragedy. (Harlan Ellison)

Anyone's demise or vanishment is in some small way tragic but the word "tragedy" requires greater measure for its use. ... Van' s great mind now gone. Tragedy.

Harlan Ellison

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