WvB and Richard Farina

[Basileios Drolias]

On Wed, 17 Jan 1996, Jeffrey L. Meikle wrote:

> the second sentence of WvB's quote depends on our own talents for
> mediumship:  can we ourselves make the piston of Maxwell's demon
> move--against the scientific odds of the third law of thermodynamics?
> It's also worth recalling, I think, though perhaps in bad taste, that
> Farina was killed when a motorcycle on which he was a *passenger*, *not*
> the driver, lost control and sailed off the road.  The parallel to
> Gottfried as passive passenger on a machine--the rocket--over which he has
> no control is personal and implicit, but I think it's there.


is tantivy anything more  than a passenger in the book then? and could 
the "Let Tantivy be alive" wish be actually "Let Richard not be extinct"
Do you people know if Richard Farina had any nicknames?

basil