21 January 2008 - dead at 64

Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 2008 : 21 January 2008

Bobby Fischer Dead at 64

If 64 is the correct age to die for a great champion of the 64 squares, then surely writers can best achieve negative capability by dying at 26.

clue:

John Keats, who had the idea of “negative capability”, missed the mark and died at 25, leaving one letter aside.