Eddie Van Halen has died

Re:Eddie Van Halen has died by sgt101 on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @04:33PM (#24702041)

Don’t waste your time, Leuconoé, living in fear and hope of the imprevisable future; forget the horoscope. Accept whatever happens. Whether the gods allow us fifty winters more or drop us at this one now which flings the high Tyrrhenian waves on the stone piers, decant your wine: the days are more fun than the years which pass us by while we discuss them. Act with zest one day at a time, and never mind the rest.

–Derek Mahon, The Hunt by Night (1982)

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Re:Eddie Van Halen has died by crocktucker on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @05:13PM (#24702386)

Ask not ('tis forbidden knowledge), what our destined term of years, Mine and yours; nor scan the tables of your Babylonish seers. Better far to bear the future, my Leuconoe, like the past, Whether Jove has many winters yet to give, or this our last; This, that makes the Tyrrhene billows spend their strength against the shore. Strain your wine and prove your wisdom; life is short; should hope be more? In the moment of our talking, envious time has ebb'd away. Seize the present; trust tomorrow e'en as little as you may.

Horace. The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace. John Conington. trans. London. George Bell and Sons. 1882. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...]

(Wikipedia: It was commissioned by the Roman emperor Augustus in 17 BC.)

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Re:Eddie Van Halen has died by golemotron on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @05:03PM (#24702319)

> On 1 October 2020, Mahon died in Cork after a short illness, aged 78 - wikipedia

Poignant. Thank you.

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