Writing's on the Wall (George Harrison song) Harrison sings of friends who are "drunk away, shot away, or die away from you". Author Ian Inglis likens the song's message, regarding the need to accept and prepare for death, to a philosophical point espoused by Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges. Inglis writes that, like Borges in his poem "Limits", Harrison fully accepts the impermanence of life and so challenges Dylan Thomas's contention (in "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night") that the inevitability of death should be defied until the end. Harrison recorded "Writing's on the Wall" during the main sessions for "Somewhere in England", held at
The Gentle Vultures order someone else to do so. Unable to solve this dilemma, the Hurrians are forced to return home, plagued by the visions of humans conquering space. Algis Budrys said that the "gentle story, told by a gentle man" was "not quite enough. For the reader is very liable to say: 'True. Too True. Now what?'". The Gentle Vultures "The Gentle Vultures" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. The story first appeared in the December 1957 issue of "Super-Science Fiction", and was reprinted in the 1959 collection "Nine Tomorrows". The story is one of a number