I recently subscribed to The New Yorker, and
in a recent copy was a “personal history” by Michael Chabon entitled, The
Final Frontier. There is a drawing of his sitting in a hospital room,
a Kindle or Notebook in his lap. He is looking over at his father in a
hospital bed. In the window is the outline of the Starship
Enterprise. The “Final Frontier” in this personal history is obviously
the death of his father. The father is lying there with an expression of
discomfort, if not pain. In what ought to be his reflection in the window
is an outline of Spock.
I looked up Chabon in
Wikipedia: “Chabon is on the writing staff of “Star
Trek: Picard, a new Star Trek series starring Patrick
Stewart, and was named showrunner in July 2019.[95]
In November 2018, a Star Trek: Short Treks short co-written by
Chabon, titled "Calypso", was released.” So
he is presumably in this “personal history” drawing on parallels between his
screen writing and the death of his father . . . anyway . . . Chabon is about
the same age as my son who would conceivably be sitting next to my hospital
bed if I were in one dying; which I have no intention of doing. I am
working hard with weights, not to avoid dying (something I don’t think about)
but to enable me to walk better and thus avoid falling again, especially when I
am on hikes.
And, it goes without saying
that Michael Chabon’s father was a wimp. ;-)
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