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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Nov 12, 2009 - 09:55am PT
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You guys with the poems, and those others who have actually read them, will have to decide. Decide carefully. There is no hurry.
"He didn't ask for them to be burned..."
Moot point. Kafka asked for all his works to be burnt upon his death. Fortunately his best friend and and executor Max Brandt (?) decide to honor his wishes best by sharing them with the rest of us.
Jr high could never be the same without Metamorphosis, brutal and telling as it is...
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Prezwoodz
Big Wall climber
Anchorage
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Nov 12, 2009 - 03:24pm PT
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It is hard to say with someone I didn't know. But from my own experience I think that to post them would be sharing a side of someone that they were unable to share of themselves. To think of death and to write it down in such ways show of a want to tell but the inability to do so.
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hooblie
climber
sounding out stuff as in the manner of crickets
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Nov 12, 2009 - 08:05pm PT
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undecided as to the dilema posed about his writings, not knowing the material, so don't count this as a solid vote in favor.
yabo brought out a complex set of emotions in me. it was a task not to be judgmental on the one hand, and that was to some extent because i could catch glimpses of my own shortcomings in his ways. i had no trouble embracing the part of him that was innocently transparent. it was kind of disarming to listen to him expose himself beyond our degree of familiarty.
he and i shared a patio table just before his going into isolation at the swnowbird comps. a lot of nervous energy and stream of consciousness puncuated by hard pulls on cigarettes. seemed incongruous with his intense ambition, but then this was yabo. when he turned to go, i felt like i had been given a real tour of the inner workings of a mind that had no misgivings about onlookers
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Maysho
climber
Soda Springs, CA
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Nov 12, 2009 - 10:40pm PT
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Hooblie, who are you? I was hanging with Yabo at that comp, I must have known you as well.
Don't really have a big opinion about posting his poems. I would like to see them but maybe they should just be circulated amongst his old friends, rather than posted on the web.
peter
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krahmes
Trad climber
Road Weary
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Nov 13, 2009 - 12:56am PT
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If there “poems” then I think your choice is fairly easy. There’s a beauty and madness in all human identities and language is one of the ways we understand this passage of consciousness. I suppose if the works mirrored something profane, I might hesitant, say the works of Sade, but I doubt that the case. You mention the writing are related to his final choice and I can only assume there’s a smattering of anguish and desperation which is part of the human condition and understanding that mind set for those not afflicted by such pain is perhaps a unwanted gift, but valuable none the less. Anyway I never knew the man outside his legend, you seem to have his memory’s best interest at heart, so I think whatever you decide and how much, will be the right choice.
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Prezwoodz
Big Wall climber
Anchorage
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Nov 13, 2009 - 01:57pm PT
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There is a lot of respect in this thread. It is a really nice thing to see.
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Russ Walling
Gym climber
Poofter's Froth, Wyoming
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Nov 13, 2009 - 02:35pm PT
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A vote here for not published, or published after a viewing by his close friends to filter intent and usefulness to the internet vultures.
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
Lake Oswego, Oregon
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 13, 2009 - 02:54pm PT
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At this point I am leaning toward holding off. I have some other materials from his sister that may be less emotional for those concerned.
I'll scan and post those things soon.
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MH2
climber
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Nov 13, 2009 - 03:01pm PT
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At this point I am leaning toward holding off.
Good. If in doubt, don't.
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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Nov 15, 2013 - 12:35pm PT
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Bump for good climbing.
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Mark Force
Trad climber
Cave Creek, AZ
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Nov 15, 2013 - 12:52pm PT
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When Yabo was on the up, he sure burned bright and his heart was kind and good.
He did an interview that was in Climbing or Rock and Ice that was quite good. Had an amazing picture of him doing a one arm chin while holding some weight plates. Awesome. Anyone have a copy of that they could scan to share?
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Rollover
climber
Gross Vegas
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Dec 25, 2013 - 11:13am PT
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Bump
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