[P-Marlowe]

I have always admired the guy who spits in the face of death, and have had a weird romantic attachment to people like that, who can make fun of his own death, saying essentially "bring it on."

FWIW, suicide bombers have that same attitude.

[DreamsofPolycarp]

FWIW, suicide bombers have that same attitude.

sorta kinda. I guess that is why I also love Hunter Thompson's works. It is the whole "cowards die a thousand deaths....." thing. Yeah, I am a romantic.

Polycarp had good cause to mock death, the last and most fearful enemy. I am not sure Mohammed Atta or Hunter Thompson did. I suppose if you are stepping into an eternity of misery, hopelessness, despair, dissolution and the absence of all that is good, it doesn't really matter how you go out, does it?