1.
LiveJournal post: 12/11/2008 22:11:00
Tags: writing
Random Additional Thoughts on “Nation”/”Graveyard Book”
Neil Gaiman makes me happy I speak and have access to the English language.
Terry Pratchett makes me happy to be a human being, among human beings.
This is still true.
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2.
I met him once, in the winter-to-spring bit of 1998. I told him, very incoherently, that I had written my senior undergrad English thesis on “Small Gods.” He said (very kindly, and as if I had not been a babbling mess): “Well I hope you got a good mark.” I was deeply embarrassed and deeply happy that this interaction happened.
This is still true.
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3.
I once told a friend of mine that in retrospect, the bulk of my teen-to-adult sense of morality and ethics were shaped by Xena and Granny Weatherwax. I was not entirely sure what that said about me. But I was okay with it.
This is still true.
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4.
I want more.
I’m afraid my tears are and have been incredibly, incredibly selfish. I don’t know how to stop having them, though.
I want so much more.
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5.
LiveJournal post: 12/12/2007 17:50:00
Tags: authors
Aw, no.
NO, no no no no no NO.
Terry Pratchett diagnosed with Alzheimer’s
Fuck.
This is still true.
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(We are poorer for the loss of you.)