Jo Walton (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} papersky) wrote,@ 2008-02-24 09:58:00 |
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Robert Legault: "And that was the music, that was New York"
readwrite is dead. I just saw it on Making Light, where there are a lot of touching tributes from people who knew him well. I didn't know him well, we interacted mainly right here. I noticed that he didn't post anything on my most recent copyediting whining, and wondered if he was OK. He wasn't. He was dead. He leaves a hole in the world.
I'd always hoped that one day I'd get him as a copyeditor.
I adored his livejournal.
He very seldom posted, but when he did it always made my day. Looking at it now, I thought I'd link to some of his unlocked posts so that you can see why I did. He was such a terrific writer. Some of these things should have been published in places where millions of people could have read them. He gives this very strong picture of time and place and of himself, he's funny and he turns an anecdote perfectly.
A homeless guy and a book.
Secret Master of the Universe. You wouldn't believe how many times I've thought about this and smiled.
Altercation on a subway car.
To a small creature.
Night bus.
Scavenging.
Home cooking.
You should read these, and if you want more you can just read back through his journal for yourself. But I should warn you, even though many of the posts are funny, or wryly funny, reading them will make you sad, because reading even just these open posts will make you miss him.
I wish I'd told him how much I loved his writing.
My f-list will be emptier without the possibility of coming across another brilliant quirky bit of his life. Taking him off the list would feel wrong though. But I keptdenizsarikarya on, and eventually, if I keep on using LJ and nobody invents immortality, I'll have more dead friends on my list than living ones. So I think a new LJ friending policy -- I'll keep dead friends on my list for a year, and then on the anniversary take them off.
readwrite is dead. I just saw it on Making Light, where there are a lot of touching tributes from people who knew him well. I didn't know him well, we interacted mainly right here. I noticed that he didn't post anything on my most recent copyediting whining, and wondered if he was OK. He wasn't. He was dead. He leaves a hole in the world.I'd always hoped that one day I'd get him as a copyeditor.
I adored his livejournal.
He very seldom posted, but when he did it always made my day. Looking at it now, I thought I'd link to some of his unlocked posts so that you can see why I did. He was such a terrific writer. Some of these things should have been published in places where millions of people could have read them. He gives this very strong picture of time and place and of himself, he's funny and he turns an anecdote perfectly.
A homeless guy and a book.
Secret Master of the Universe. You wouldn't believe how many times I've thought about this and smiled.
Altercation on a subway car.
To a small creature.
Night bus.
Scavenging.
Home cooking.
You should read these, and if you want more you can just read back through his journal for yourself. But I should warn you, even though many of the posts are funny, or wryly funny, reading them will make you sad, because reading even just these open posts will make you miss him.
I wish I'd told him how much I loved his writing.
My f-list will be emptier without the possibility of coming across another brilliant quirky bit of his life. Taking him off the list would feel wrong though. But I kept
denizsarikarya on, and eventually, if I keep on using LJ and nobody invents immortality, I'll have more dead friends on my list than living ones. So I think a new LJ friending policy -- I'll keep dead friends on my list for a year, and then on the anniversary take them off.
