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This was a great tribute. I didn't know Matt as well as you but we became friends in the last few years. I probably met him ten years ago, when I was acting on a project, and, while in sitting in holding, reading Bukowski. He was working as a P.A. I believe and spotted me with the book and we struck up a convo.

Years later I went on his podcast and we became friendly after that. He came to my show one time. We chatted on the phone every month or two. Nice guy. We'd have long conversations on all sorts of literary and theoretical matters.

It's always the same way with me with losing someone. I somehow don't appreciate them fully until they're gone. He said some things I thought were a little crazy at times like that he thought he was the best writer since Hemingway...but he was a great person, very generous, cool to talk to, funny, interesting. Damn! Gone too soon. R.I.P. Matt D'Abate. I'll miss those Literate Sunday emails.

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Toyotathon Jones's avatar

That is maybe my all-time favorite Whitman quote.

The drinking, the disappointments, the one last hands blackjack, it all catches up with you. I think it may be a good thing, because it allows you to catch up with you.

In 48 years I've become a glib, sober, Catholic, mid-westerner. I, too, am done but not finished.

Hope you are doing okay.

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