Like "the younger man," I also started watching EM as a teenager. I always knew he was abnormal, and I guess I should have "put the pieces together" more after hearing him talk so much about the world of folly and ignorance, but it still disappointed and surprised me how much more drab and thoughtless and passionless the world seemed to be once I started to grow up. I expected more people (at university, for example) to be more like Eisel, so much more brave, passionate, creative, silly, vulnerable, brilliant. It's weird for me to watch EM now, after not having been here in a few months. It's like he's living on another planet from everyone else I know, and that world is equal parts brighter and darker, it is so much bigger and it is so much more vividly realized, and it is so much more youthful but it is also so much more mature. EM is a man who was alive when most of us were already ghosts, and he is a man who will leave no ghost when he is gone.
