How can this be real?

[selenak]

There are some people you just don't expect to die, ever. Especially when they're so good at recreating themselves.  Regenerate, as it were, because if there ever was a real life Time Lord, it surely was David Bowie.  And this should read "is David Bowie", and it doesn't, and despite never having been a devoted fan - I like some of the songs I grew up with in the 70s and 80s, and some of the movies he made as an actor - (like a lot of people who were teenagers in the 80s I imprinted on David Bowie as Jareth the Goblin King; just a few years ago, I was stunned to later, post-watching, realise he was Nikola Tesla in The Prestige because I hadn't recognised him, and yet the role had been perfect for him and his otherworldly, larger than life quality) - I'm still trying to process the reality of this.

He really was like no one else in the world.