NP - In His Time of Dying

[David Morris]

I know this source is not obscure, but just in case you missed it...

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/26/magazine/26ZEVON.html

He [Warren Zevon] has mesothelioma: the same kind of lung cancer, he dryly
noted, that killed Steve McQueen. He has been informed he has only months to
live. And in the part of that time that he is not spending with family and
friends, he is writing and recording songs. 

''I just thought right away that I wanted to work,'' he told me this fall over
bacon and eggs in Hugo's, a restaurant near his apartment in West Hollywood. He
was dressed like a junior faculty member, in jacket and jeans; his energy came
and went. ''This is a good job. It's been a good job. Work is the most
effective drug there can possibly be. 

''I'm on the periphery of a lot of despair, of course,'' he said. ''You'd have
to be stupid not to be. I have my moments when I'm not too thrilled about this
whole deal. But at the same time, the songs have never come like this, so I'd
have to feel more gratitude than anything else. I'm probably in the intensest
creative period of my life.'' 



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