#passing-away — Public Fediverse posts

South African wine industry stalwart passes away https://www.diningandcooking.com/?p=2492387 #AndréMorgenthal #OldVineProject #PassingAway #SouthAfrica #SouthAfricanWine #SouthAfricanWineIndustry #Wine #WineFromSouthAfrica #WineOfSouthAfrica #WOSA

A quotation from Muriel Spark

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Muriel Spark (1918–2006) Scottish writer, poet, essayist
Memento Mori, ch. 4 [Miss Jean Taylor] (1959)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/spark-muriel/76498/

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jim leftwich passed away

the bad news make me absolutely astonished, sad. my/our friend Jim Leftwich passed away. he had an heart attack. I’m still speechless and in shock.

as soon as I read the news, my first reaction was disbelief. but it was soon confirmed.

for more than twenty years Jim has been a great interlocutor for me, an inexhaustible source of critical dialogue, on experimental writing and verbo-visual art, but also on all the political questions that experimentation entails.

Jim was also a slowforward editor, a tireless promoter of other people’s work, writings, and connections. not to mention his primary role in the spreading of the practice of asemic writing.

I miss him so much.

this passing, with the passing of Peter Ganick, is a truly major loss for the literary community as a whole, and for me as a friend. I never met him in person, despite the thousand messages we exchanged, and I’ll never meet him anymore.

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