Paraphrasing yet another great man of letters besides Yogi Berra, the rumors of James Fortune's death have been greatly exaggerated, and Fortune is about as dead as Paul McCartney. One person who doesn't particularly find any of this amusing is D.K., since Fortune, according to D.K., chose to send out bogus emails about his "death" using D.K.'s address, making it look as though D.K. were waxing Marc Anthony-style funeral orations.
D.K.: "I'm very disappointed that James Fortune would send out an email from my email address, giving the impression that these are my words about what happened. I don't know why he [Fortune] did that. He is not dead, physically. This is not how I speak. What James Fortune has done here is write a thesis. Basically, James tends to get overzealous and melodramatic about things when he makes a decision. He met this wonderful Christian girl that's a nurse. She's just overwhelmed him. He told her all about his adult background. She didn't seem to be put off by it or wants to judge him for it. He feels that there's no way he's going to continue his adult endeavors and be in a relationship with this woman. When James gets something in his head, he doesn't think things through before deciding to open his mouth. He wants people to think that he's dead because he has decided to kill his existence in this business.
