His work had such amazing breadth — from the hilarity of How Much for Just the Planet? to the almost unbearable clarity of 110 Stories. When I discovered Making Light and his comments here, I was unsurprised to find both the hilarity and the clarity in evidence. His poetic gems were reason enough to browse each new thread.
While I never met or corresponded with him, I am sad to lose his voice. I am truly sad for the people who knew him — but I'm glad that you did.
Am I the only one who read "Five Things You Should Never Say to Your Favorite Authors When You Meet Them" as including "Teresa Nielsen Hayden"?
"Mr. So-and-So! I've always wanted to meet you -- it's such an honor. By the way: Teresa Nielsen Hayden."
"Eek!"
I'm a childbirth educator, and while I don't want to get too deeply into the controversy over gestational diabetes, I'll say that many of the supposed cases just ... aren't. As Henci Goer points out in her excellent article Gestational Diabetes: the emperor has no clothes, GD criteria are highly arbitrary, and the management of supposed GD cases often causes more trouble than it prevents. Worth a read.
My children are descended from Mark Bensley Thornhill, at one point Deputy Collector in Cawnpore, but in 1857 a magistrate in Muttra. (My MIL's family was associated with the British East India Company for several generations.) Mark, unlike his two brothers who were also serving in India that year (and some of their families), survived the slaughter -- by posing as a Muslim woman during his escape.
In 1884 he published his memoir The personal adventures and experiences of a magistrate during the rise, progress and suppression of the Indian mutiny, a copy of which we own; it's fascinating stuff. I know the Indian Mutiny (Sepoy Rebellion / War of Independence of 1857 / [insert your name here]) wasn't covered in any of my history books, and I'd be surprised if more than a tiny percentage of Americans had heard of it at all. So one of these days we should figure out a way to scan the book without damaging it, and make the entire thing available online.
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