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Unread 11-27-2019, 05:26 PM
Cally Conan-Davies Cally Conan-Davies is offline
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I'm heartbroken. In one year, losing Clive and Les.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-...3Hr4jf6tAb7kZg

And here's the closing paragraph of his wonderful "Unreliable Memoirs":

"As I begin this last paragraph, outside my window a misty afternoon drizzle gently but inexorably soaks the City of London. Down there in the street I can see umbrellas commiserating with each other. In Sydney Harbour, twelve thousand miles away and ten hours from now, the yachts will be racing on the crushed diamond water under a sky the texture of powdered sapphires. It would be churlish not to concede that the same abundance of natural blessings which gave us the energy to leave has every right to call us back. All in, the whippy's taken. Pulsing like a beacon through the days and nights, the birthplace of the fortunate sends out its invisible waves of recollection. It always has and it always will, until even the last of us come home."

And Jonathan Miller, too, dead. I'll never forget him saying in an interview (with Melvyn Bragg, I think), "The purpose of life is to learn how to die."

Editing in --- if you can access this recording -- https://www.abc.net.au/radionational...-educa/4432332 -- if you're able to listen to it, it's pure gold.

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