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Re: Worldken bard Poul Anderson in deathstead (not a funny)

From:Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>
Date:Wednesday, August 1, 2001, 20:56
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, John Cowan wrote:

Ill tidings for sooth!

>Poul Anderson has left Alta Bates sickstead in Berkeley and is in deathstead >dearness at the Anderson home in Orinda. His daughter Astrid, his brother John >and his sibchild Janet are flying in today to be with him. When I spoke with >Poul the day before yesterday, he was weak but clear; both Poul and Karen >welcome bernstonish writs. Their bernstone home is trigonier@earthlink.net
Why "sibchild" and not sisterdaughter?
> >Karen has underlifted Poul with heart and makerishness during his month-long >stay at Alta Bates. She has made meals of many small and tasty bites >that would fortry him when he was not befelt to eat; she has set her >foodthings to his foodly pinchings, and provided alltime breadsharership and >relief from the discomfort and strain of sicksteaddom. Poul, not >unforeseenly, has shown heart in the face of what was not, at the >beginning, escapeless, but extremely difficult. Now the escapeless has >come, and it is likely a mass of days.
"Extremely"? "Difficult"? "Mass"?
> >My own loss is made hard by the fact that I cannot be with them at this >time, and that I stand to lose not just a great father in law, but one of my >bestliked writers. Both Poul and Karen have provided enlarged inbreathing over >the tenyears to me and to hundreds of thousands, perhaps greatthousands, of >others.
"Provided"?
> >Please pass this writ to others not on the list, who might wish to outshow >their love and increaseness.
"Increaseness"?
> >Greg Bear > >(Translated into Ander-Saxon by John Cowan)
Thanks for sharing this with us! - even if it is not welcome news. I suppose in your grief, horrible Latinisms can be forgiven! Padraic.
> >-- >John Cowan cowan@ccil.org >One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore > --Douglas Hofstadter >

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