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07-11-2008, 07:36 PM
Thanks to everyone on this Journal who expressed condolences to me personally for the loss of a friend, and to all who remembered Tom and his work.
http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif (http://lizhand.livejournal.com/profile)lizhand (http://lizhand.livejournal.com/) wonders if he'd have been surprised at so many people on blogs and websites and elsewhere expressing admiration and sorrow. He did have the idea -- or expressed the idea -- that he was a forgotten man whose name was writ in water, but like so many things he said it was hard to know how he took such sentiments. Certainly he was as attracted to fame (and maybe even immortality) through writing -- writing as an antidote to death. (A critic pointed out recently that Keats might have thought his name was writ in water -- but he did see to putting the phrase on his granite tombstone to last through the ages.) I was surprised by how many of the many obituaries he received put him at the top of the day's entries. I wish I could tell him.
The very best of those obits was by http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif (http://lizhand.livejournal.com/profile)lizhand (http://lizhand.livejournal.com/) in Salon:
http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/07/11/disch/
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http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif (http://lizhand.livejournal.com/profile)lizhand (http://lizhand.livejournal.com/) wonders if he'd have been surprised at so many people on blogs and websites and elsewhere expressing admiration and sorrow. He did have the idea -- or expressed the idea -- that he was a forgotten man whose name was writ in water, but like so many things he said it was hard to know how he took such sentiments. Certainly he was as attracted to fame (and maybe even immortality) through writing -- writing as an antidote to death. (A critic pointed out recently that Keats might have thought his name was writ in water -- but he did see to putting the phrase on his granite tombstone to last through the ages.) I was surprised by how many of the many obituaries he received put him at the top of the day's entries. I wish I could tell him.
The very best of those obits was by http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif (http://lizhand.livejournal.com/profile)lizhand (http://lizhand.livejournal.com/) in Salon:
http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/07/11/disch/
(Original Post) (http://crowleycrow.livejournal.com/92709.html)