D. H. Lawrence

Friend: ‎"The only reason for being alive is being fully alive." D.H. Lawrence

Brian Leekley: I liked Lawrence's novels, such as SONS AND LOVERS, THE RAINBOW, and WOMEN IN LOVE. Have you read much of him? The only reason for being alive is that life is kind of interesting.

Friend: Yes, I have read all of him and have written paper on him as well. He is one of my favorites. He died very young.

Brian Leekley: Lawrence lived 1985 to 1930 so he was only 45 when he died of TB. Makes one at 69 think it's time to get working and get some quality writing done.

Friend: Wow, I thought he was younger. i might be thinking of that poet who died young, is it Yeats? I wonder what the life expectancy was in 1930.

Friend: Looks like it was 58. Thank you, internet!

Brian Leekley: Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) stopped creative writing before he was 21 and died of cancer at 37. Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) died of pneumonia at 39. Albert Camus (1913-1960) died in a car accident at 46. So it goes.