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Synchronicities are always there, if we look for them... Jack Laurence Chalker has just passed away, and I realize that I had recently picked up a long out-of-print "rpg" based on Jack L. Chalker's series of novels about the Well World, which began with "Midnight at the Well of Souls." This 1st&only ed. boxed set rpg of Midnight at the Well of Souls, was written by Timothy R. Green, and published by TAG Industries, 1985. It features: 1 Rulebook (112 pages), plus a Space Combat System supplement, Introductory adventure, "Well World" maps, Ref. and Char. Sheets, & Dice. Rules include details on both man-to-man and space combat, space travel, stellar system builder, and short descriptions of 150(!) races found on the Well World. The game is really more like a Metagaming-era transition between wargame & table/chart adventure-driven rpgs (like The Fantasy Trip)... dense typography and cludgy as hell... but maybe it's time to break it out and playtest it in his honor?
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Arthur Miller has also passed away... both Miller and Chalker died of congestive heart failure.
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So, now James "Jim" E. Dougherty is the only ex-husband of Marilyn Monroe remaining alive.
One obit piece for Arthur Miller mentions, ` `In a biography of Monroe, Maurice Zolotow wrote that Mr. Miller had "to give up his entire time to attend to her wants." ... He was once asked if he had resented having to care for her to the detriment of his work. "Oh, yeah," he answered.
"After the Fall," his most overtly autobiographical play, brought Mr. Miller a storm of criticism when it was produced in 1964, shortly after Monroe's death. The play, which had been written soon after the collapse of their marriage, implies a search for understanding of his responsibility toward her, of her inability to cope and of his failure to help her.' '
From another article, this one specifically about Miller's relationships with women, ` `As far as Monroe is concerned, I spent five years trying to keep her from falling off the cliff. How did she die? Did she self-destroy or not? Are we not to put truth on the stage?' '
According to the mirror.co.uk, ` `Miller married Monroe, his second wife, in 1956, but the relationship was doomed and they divorced in 1961. He rarely spoke of the marriage, but in a 1992 interview described her as "self-destructive". In his autobiography in 1987, ("Timebends: A Life,") he said she was the saddest woman he ever met. He wrote: "To have survived, she would have had to be either more cynical or even further from reality than she was. Instead, she was a poet on a street corner trying to recite to a crowd pulling at her clothes."' '
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Arthur Miller has also passed away... both Miller and Chalker died of congestive heart failure.
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So, now James "Jim" E. Dougherty is the only ex-husband of Marilyn Monroe remaining alive.
One obit piece for Arthur Miller mentions, ` `In a biography of Monroe, Maurice Zolotow wrote that Mr. Miller had "to give up his entire time to attend to her wants." ... He was once asked if he had resented having to care for her to the detriment of his work. "Oh, yeah," he answered.
"After the Fall," his most overtly autobiographical play, brought Mr. Miller a storm of criticism when it was produced in 1964, shortly after Monroe's death. The play, which had been written soon after the collapse of their marriage, implies a search for understanding of his responsibility toward her, of her inability to cope and of his failure to help her.' '
From another article, this one specifically about Miller's relationships with women, ` `As far as Monroe is concerned, I spent five years trying to keep her from falling off the cliff. How did she die? Did she self-destroy or not? Are we not to put truth on the stage?' '
According to the mirror.co.uk, ` `Miller married Monroe, his second wife, in 1956, but the relationship was doomed and they divorced in 1961. He rarely spoke of the marriage, but in a 1992 interview described her as "self-destructive". In his autobiography in 1987, ("Timebends: A Life,") he said she was the saddest woman he ever met. He wrote: "To have survived, she would have had to be either more cynical or even further from reality than she was. Instead, she was a poet on a street corner trying to recite to a crowd pulling at her clothes."' '