>>why does the great ones die so early?
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>What's a little spooky is how many of them died at age 27. Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, and Brian Jones are all members of "the 27 club."
Yeah, but at least in the case of Cobain the worlds net pool of talent wasn't diminished ( yeah, that was deliberately inflammatory and I can already smell the spirited teens defended his tortured soul but he is my posterboy for overhyped art-schoolish poseur who was deified as a symbol rather than rightly admired as either musician or a poet of which he was clearly neither. <s> )
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- Thomas Hardy
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