A Sad Loss

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 15 Apr 2002, 16:58 · from urth-v0204.mbox · original

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From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <ddanehy at siebel.com>
Subject: (urth) A Sad Loss
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 09:58:26 -0700
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The dedication to THE FIFTH HEAD OF CERBERUS reads:

                               To Damon Knight, who
                                one well-remembered
          June evening in 1966 grew me from a bean.

I have no idea what that means, but I know that if it
were not for Knight's ORBIT series or original anthologies,=20
we might not have Gene Wolfe - we might not, that is, have=20
the Gene Wolfe we know & love; I am sure that his talent
would have blossomed somewhere, but it might not have been
in the genre of SF/F. And, of course,=20

Let us then observe a moment of silence and, for those of
us who do such things, prayer.=20

Damon Knight is dead.

--A Very Depressed Blattid

--=20

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