What to Accept The fact of mountains. The actuality Of any stone — by kicking, if necessary. The need to ignore stupid people, While restraining one's natural impulse To murder them. The change from your dollar, Be it no more than a penny, For without a pretense of universal penury There can be no honor between rich and poor. Love, unconditionally, or until proven false. The inevitability of cancer and/or Heart disease. The dialogue as written, Once you've taken the role. Failure, Gracefully. Any hospitality You're willing to return. The air Each city offers you to breathe. The latest hit. Assistance. All accidents. The end.

In his final novel however The Word of God Disch got his revenge on Dick with a story in which Dick is dead and living in Hell unable to write because of writer's block. Disch to Tom Disch – both genres emerged from the same expanding mind and changing times. His first novel The Genocides appeared in 1965; Brian W.

In 1996 his book The Castle of Indolence: On Poetry Poets and Poetasters was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and in 1999 Disch won the Nonfiction Hugo for The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of a meditation on the impact of science fiction on our culture as well as the Michael Braude Award for Light Verse. His last book The Word of God which was written shortly before Naylor died had just been publiThomas M. Dischd a few days before Disch's death.