Word: bobbed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...BOB'S DEATH was the omega of that experience. If he hadn't died it would have been like everything else in life, it just would have faded away. That chapter of my life was notable in that it was very enjoyable, I was very involved, and it had a very definite...
...perspective. The fact that he was a great guy, but that he lived on the edge, and like a lot of these people who I had talked to said, he realized it was something you sort of bargain for a little bit. I said that Bob realized this was always a possibility, and that while it was a tragedy that he died, his life itself was tremendous, and that sort of thing should be celebrated...
...sort of group of people to be inhibited by somebody's being killed. I'm not going to try to take away from the tragedy of it; it was shocking and it was terrible, but it was believable. We had talked about the possibility of dying, and Bob would always say, 'You have to go for it. You have to live day by day. You can't live a boring life...
...WHAT IF Bob had lived? What if there had been no accident? "I've thought about that a lot. Reality would have caught up with him pretty soon. All these years we'd talked about it, 'Oh, we'll both go to medical school, we'll both be doctors, it'll be a great life.' But I knew that he was not going to get into medical school. Maybe he would have gone to work as an EMT somewhere, kind of working part-time. Just sort of rolling along, I think that's where he'd be right...
...describes the older professional ski patrolmen he knows as "rural, crusty guys," and he doubts Bob could have long tolerated professional patrolling. "Bob was not a rural, middle-class type guy. He had very expensive tastes, he was very cosmopolitan. He loved good food and he knew a lot about good wine. It might be something that he could identify with as a goal, similar to the 'move out of the East Coast, go to Colorado, get back to nature' type thing. But he wouldn't have been happy in a rural environment, he liked too many big-city things...