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Conrad Cook was found dead last year, age 38
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Aric Maddux
Mar 14, 2013, 1:59:13 PM3/14/13
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I am saddened to post this, but I found on Conrad's facebook page a post from his family reporting that he was found dead last year.
This is the entirety of it, and was posted on November 20, 2012:
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From our father, Erben Cook:
Three months ago, in August, in Waltham, Massachusetts they fished the body of a homeless man from the Charles River.
Yesterday, a detective called to tell me that it was my son, Conrad.
They traced him through a homeless shelter. He wasn't an alcoholic and he wasn't a drug user. He was brilliant beyond reckoning, put himself through school with scholarships and earned a degree in philosophy, and he was flawed, unable to cope with the world the rest of us live in. At every turn he refused help and he insisted on living at the ragged fringe of society. He proudly called himself a hobo.
I asked him once what he thought of giving money to derelicts who might spend it on drink or drugs. He said, "I always give them money if I can. They might spend it on alcohol or drugs. Or they might just be hungry. How do you know?"
If you are inclined to send condolences or flowers, please just give what you can to the nearest homeless shelter. Or donate some time. There are good people who helped take care of Conrad while he was alive.
Now my boy is gone and there's nothing left but to cry.
On Tuesday, November 27th we will have a chance to visit with our friends and
Conrad's over coffee and finger foods:
4pm-7pm
Brooklawn Funeral Home
511 Brook St.
Rocky Hill, CT
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I was also able to find an obituary here: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/hartfordcourant/obituary.aspx?pid=161253594#fbLoggedOut
This being the internet, it is of course difficult to know if this is for real, though I will say I checked his facebook page because it had been a long time since I had heard from him. I don't really know what else to say, except that I will miss him.
This is the entirety of it, and was posted on November 20, 2012:
***
From our father, Erben Cook:
Three months ago, in August, in Waltham, Massachusetts they fished the body of a homeless man from the Charles River.
Yesterday, a detective called to tell me that it was my son, Conrad.
They traced him through a homeless shelter. He wasn't an alcoholic and he wasn't a drug user. He was brilliant beyond reckoning, put himself through school with scholarships and earned a degree in philosophy, and he was flawed, unable to cope with the world the rest of us live in. At every turn he refused help and he insisted on living at the ragged fringe of society. He proudly called himself a hobo.
I asked him once what he thought of giving money to derelicts who might spend it on drink or drugs. He said, "I always give them money if I can. They might spend it on alcohol or drugs. Or they might just be hungry. How do you know?"
If you are inclined to send condolences or flowers, please just give what you can to the nearest homeless shelter. Or donate some time. There are good people who helped take care of Conrad while he was alive.
Now my boy is gone and there's nothing left but to cry.
On Tuesday, November 27th we will have a chance to visit with our friends and
Conrad's over coffee and finger foods:
4pm-7pm
Brooklawn Funeral Home
511 Brook St.
Rocky Hill, CT
***
I was also able to find an obituary here: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/hartfordcourant/obituary.aspx?pid=161253594#fbLoggedOut
This being the internet, it is of course difficult to know if this is for real, though I will say I checked his facebook page because it had been a long time since I had heard from him. I don't really know what else to say, except that I will miss him.
Andrew Plotkin
Mar 14, 2013, 2:36:25 PM3/14/13
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Here, Aric Maddux <madd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am saddened to post this, but I found on Conrad's facebook page a post from his family reporting that he was found dead last year.
> [...]
> I am saddened to post this, but I found on Conrad's facebook page a post from his family reporting that he was found dead last year.
>
> I was also able to find an obituary here: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/hartfordcourant/obituary.aspx?pid=161253594#fbLoggedOut
>
> This being the internet, it is of course difficult to know if this
> is for real, though I will say I checked his facebook page because
> it had been a long time since I had heard from him. I don't really
> know what else to say, except that I will miss him.
Given the details, I see other posts
> I was also able to find an obituary here: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/hartfordcourant/obituary.aspx?pid=161253594#fbLoggedOut
>
> This being the internet, it is of course difficult to know if this
> is for real, though I will say I checked his facebook page because
> it had been a long time since I had heard from him. I don't really
> know what else to say, except that I will miss him.
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/walminassoc/message/983
in particular). It does look real.
Conrad visited a PR-IF meeting in Boston a couple of years ago. He was
living in a homeless shelter at the time, and was neither apologetic
nor defensive about his lifestyle. He was there to talk about IF. I am
sorry that this has happened.
--Z
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"And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the borogoves..."
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nyar...@gmail.com
Nov 5, 2013, 3:53:43 PM11/5/13
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Conrad Cook was a roommate of mine in 2002 in Brighton Mass. The guy was a total asshole. He used to talk about he would use fake photography ads on the internet to lure women. He talked trash about me and never failed to be late with rent. The guy was a fucking slob who kept his room like a pig sty. He left the apartment owing me rent and tossed the keys to the place in a catbox after leaving a nasty note. The guy was a straight up scumbag with a bad attitude. I am glad he is dead. All you fucking losers crying about his death and his brilliance and writings have no idea what that asshole was really like. You didn't live with that stinky inflated ego cunt rag. FUCK CONRAD COOK!
Peter Pears
Nov 6, 2013, 3:07:57 AM11/6/13
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Someone has issues.
John Simon
Nov 9, 2013, 5:23:43 AM11/9/13
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Wrong thread. Really.
Sean Lane Fuller
Nov 14, 2013, 10:31:02 PM11/14/13
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nyar...@gmail.com wrote:
> Conrad Cook was a roommate of mine in 2002 in Brighton Mass. The guy was a total asshole. He used to talk about he would use fake photography ads on the internet to lure women. He talked trash about me and never failed to be late with rent. The guy was a fucking slob who kept his room like a pig sty. He left the apartment owing me rent and tossed the keys to the place in a catbox after leaving a nasty note. The guy was a straight up scumbag with a bad attitude. I am glad he is dead. All you fucking losers crying about his death and his brilliance and writings have no idea what that asshole was really like. You didn't live with that stinky inflated ego cunt rag. FUCK CONRAD COOK!
What is everybody saying Conrad Cook did? Did he write interactive fiction?
> Conrad Cook was a roommate of mine in 2002 in Brighton Mass. The guy was a total asshole. He used to talk about he would use fake photography ads on the internet to lure women. He talked trash about me and never failed to be late with rent. The guy was a fucking slob who kept his room like a pig sty. He left the apartment owing me rent and tossed the keys to the place in a catbox after leaving a nasty note. The guy was a straight up scumbag with a bad attitude. I am glad he is dead. All you fucking losers crying about his death and his brilliance and writings have no idea what that asshole was really like. You didn't live with that stinky inflated ego cunt rag. FUCK CONRAD COOK!
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Adam Thornton
Nov 15, 2013, 11:49:04 AM11/15/13
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In article <l644hl$cs1$1...@odin.sdf-eu.org>,
Adam
Sean Lane Fuller <seanlan...@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
>What is everybody saying Conrad Cook did? Did he write interactive fiction?
Among other things.
>What is everybody saying Conrad Cook did? Did he write interactive fiction?
Adam
401...@comhem.se
Feb 13, 2014, 4:10:20 AM2/13/14
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> Three months ago, in August, in Waltham, Massachusetts they fished the body of a homeless man from the Charles River.
> On Tuesday, November 27th we will have a chance to visit with our friends and
>
> Conrad's over coffee and finger foods:
Ah, the priceless banality of death!
>
> Conrad's over coffee and finger foods:
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