Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-70.211.68.176-20150610213226/@comment-24891101-20150611023129

I think it's less generalized pain at his passing and more specifically the act of writing reminding them of him. Wanting to ask for clarification on something, or simply knowing that it's their lot to make it a reality. If it's fallen to you to stay the course and see a departed friend's work come to fruition, then it would be saddening. Less drowning old sorrows and more drowning new ones arising during the writing process, as they finally get around to touching it, after it's numbed. And now that Ithink about it, we don't actually know, based on that tweet, whether they're actually drinking during the writing. From the pragmatics it seems likely, but just from the tweet, that describes the purpose of the bottle, not their actual action. Who knows? Though perhaps I'm merely being overly optimistic.