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I a youthsome wholesome jokesome handsome

I (a youthsome, wholesome, jokesome, handsome,... gamesome, chucklesome, bothersome, and awesome modest fellow)... does not deliberately court immortalization, and wonders what criteria confer elevation, exaltation, glorification, hero worship, idolization, veneration, or worship. I go about a daily humdrum routine me, a twenty first century baby boomer, who considers himself passé and senses with sensibility he would have been more at home during the early nineteen hundreds. At threescore and six years under my out of this world Kuiper belt, this wannabe joker here makes the most of figurative cards I got dealt despite most every day of my life felt accursed with mental health issues, stunted physical growth, and a split uvula - submucous cleft palate on very rare occasions, I (once a slip of a lad and light as a feather) got lifted off the ground and tossed in air by classmates momentarily suspended as a Great Dane helt in high regard remembering those happy days analogous to Reelin’ In the Years being like a little fish in a big pond poignant adventures going out with weathered mariners actually Norwegian bachelor farmers tricked out seamen thru and thru prematurely ejaculating with joie de vivre while whipping the rod hoping hook, line and sinker snags jacksmelt. Nothing about my person screams shine the kleiglights (an intense carbon arc lamp, especially used in filmmaking) on me, one foo fighting fool on the hill nowhere man, who hopes to be reincarnated into the ideal of acuity, bankability, creativity, divinity, ethicality, fidelity, generosity, humility, integrity, jocundity, knowledgeability, likability, magnanimity, nobility, originality, perspicacity, luck quiddity, respectability, sagacity, tranquility, unconventionality, versatility, and winnability. Now just let me get these grubby hands on well preserved brains of freshly deceased, and tinker ala Victor Frankenstein. Yes quite a tall order, but methinks I can master genetic engineering (with both eyes closed - and both hands tied behind my back), and thwart (once and for all) the nasty demise of mortality and promise fail safe solution to vanquish what people used to consider the quaint inevitable and unavoidable courtesy visit by the grim reaper - depicted as wearing a dark hooded cloak and wielding a scythe also known as Hel, Thanatos - formerly known as Azrael, and better known as the Grim Reaper the personification, embodiment, and spirit of Death (known throughout the cosmos for appearing soon after someone died to deliver their soul to the afterlife), Psychopomp, or Shinigami  "la Parca" ("The Robe"), - a common term for the personification of death across Latin America forcing humanity to rethink and reboot the concept of dying and meeting the maker essentially making process of death obsolete unleashing in this lifetime of mine the solution to upend the demise of corporeal entity plus doing away with attendant emotional and financial toll final expense insurance policies generate - whereby unabated longevity no longer a worry of the past, but another padding to "nest egg" recouping set aside monies to cover the costs incurred by the death of a loved one, whether that person gets buried in a cemetery or cremated to be become forever vanquished courtesy creating a untapped market for twenty blank nth century when speciality to become a B certified and verified by B Lab of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability, which demand to churn out one after another doctors named Victor Frankenstein bringing to life "creature", "fiend", "spectre", "dæmon", "wretch", "devil", "thing", "being", and "ogre," which high paying specialists must meet high standards, whereby the newly hatched mad scientist receives an bone a fide education of corpse, whose appreciation acknowledged by the grateful dead souls their learning involves combining, involving artificial intelligence, reproductive biology and robotics discovering solutions to synthesize the best western qualities and as a dissertation presenting the most poignant tragicomic live unrehearsed drama showcasing the denouement of humanity trumpeting *****sapiens bumbling, fumbling, and tabling after teasing out the box of Pandora mysteries of development building neural network describing linkedin thinking computer systems deoxyribonucleic acid, and branches of engineering and computer science that involve the conception, design, manufacture and operation of robots unwittingly as a cautionary tale whereat smart machines outwit and then control their creators with decency, humanity, leniency.... no, not spelling the gloom and doom of man/womankind, but rather capitalists freed from labor boon yet silver lining allows, enables, and provides old fashioned option to party hardy, or read all the books in the world which upside being that human beings can alway choose exit - stage door left videre licet euthanasia (voluntary and pain free suicide), returning to the closed feedback loop molecules and atoms constituting and declaring each unique personhood ready and willing to give up the ghost and buzzfeeding, jump/kick starting and replenishing the biosphere.

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