R.I.P. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Yes, I should have said something last week but I didn't realize the man had died until it was too late to post anything about it. Just shows what I get for not keeping up with the news.

By all rights, Solzhenitsyn should not have lived this long but he did. Not only does his life make it very hard to gripe about the life of the average "starving" artist here in the US, it also proves that one can prevail against a political system far harsher than the US if one is determined -- and fortunate. Of course, he ultimately paid for his defiance with exile but when you consider how easy it must have been to give in...

If nothing else, his life certainly puts this item in perspective.

He will be missed.