# Re. Death's Sentence *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 21 Apr 2000* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Joshua A. Solomon *21 Apr 2000, 09:59* Tony Ellis is correct. Death's sentence refers to the fact that Tackman is in fact a fictional character. However, there is another interpretation that I think is also correct. Note that Tackman (at least partly) lives out his fantasies. Also note that the adults in Tackman's world also (at least partly) live out their fantasies (with drugs, costumes, etc.). I believe Death's sentence also refers to the fact that people don't lose their fantasy lives when they grow up. bee Are fans of Fantasy more likely to have imaginary friends as children? ``` Joshua A. Solomon Institute of Ophthalmology 11 - 43 Bath Street London EC1V 9EL Voice: (44) 20 7608 6924 Fax: (44) 20 7608 6846 j.solomon at ucl.ac.uk http://vision.arc.nasa.gov/personnel/jsolomon ``` ---