LONDON (AP) - Edward Craven Walker, the inventor of the lava lamp and an enthusiastic nudist who made movies promoting life in the buff, has died at age 82.
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``If you buy my lamp, you won’t need drugs,’’ Walker once said.
For some reason, I expected the obit to say that his remains would be dissolved and placed in a transparent, illuminated cylinder full of colorful liquid.
When I saw the subject my first thought was “but, but, I’m still alive.”
Then I realised that a great tragedy has befallen us all, and humour would be inaproriate at this time.
A moment of silence for his passing.
I remember vividly the first lava lamp I ever saw, when I was a child and my parents and I went to visit the local parish priest, Father Ericsson (from St Mel’s Church) and my brother and I were fascinated by the colourful display. Afterwards I remember pestering our parents for one, but they, being averse to frivolous spending of money, told me that no lava lamp would be forthcoming. Ah, the memories!
When I found an animated cursor for my Macintosh that showed a lava lamp, I was ecstatic.