I remember recently a number of threads where DUers complain about Taverner's increasing;y weird posts.
Has Taverner been deteriorating lately? Like, have the drugs been taking over, affecting the way he writes?
With Tav, the drugs took over a long time ago.
Recently, his father was incapacitated by a stroke, and Tav decided to pull the plug on life support.
Unfortuntately the old man didn't die right away. He's apparently still hanging on, and since the plug-pulling Tav's drug-induced lunacy has been even more pronounced.
It was great, until Skimmer pulled the plug on Tav.