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In spite of recent woeful feedback on Dmitri¹s declining health, the news of
his death came as a stunning bolt from the black. Bereft of words, I borrow
from Paul Valéry¹s Le cimetière marin: Le don de vivre a passé dans les
fleurs.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
On 24/02/2012 01:05, "Susan Elizabeth Sweeney" <ssweeney@HOLYCROSS.EDU>
wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> I am too shocked and sad right now to say anything but how much I will miss
> his sprightly, generous, candid, charming presence and how comforted I am to
> be part of a community that knows what this loss means.
>
> Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
>
>
>>>> >>> Panayoti Kelaidis 02/23/12 6:32 PM >>>
> Ten days ago I drove along Lake Leman and made the pilgrimage to the Clarens
> cemetery and was photographed next to that rather odd VN statue in front of
> the Montreux Palace Hotel (I wonder how many of us re-re-readers have gone
> through that bittersweet ritual over the years?). I drove right through Vevey
> going and coming, not even realizing that Dmitri might have been spending his
> last days there.
>
> I regretted on previous trips as a young man passing through Switzerland that
> I never dropped by to pay my respects to VN, Years later, I likewise forwent
> the possibility of disturbing Vera... We good re-readers know that the
> physical, palpable presence would have probably been anticlimactic anyway,
> right?
>
> I have a greater regret that when Dmitri came to Denver (where I live) in the
> centenary year of VN's birth, on the grand lecture tour, practically to my
> doorstep I could not go because of the timing of a family loss.
>
> We are charmed and even thrilled (if ever so slightly envious) of those lucky
> enough to have had contact and conversations, proximity, even relationships
> with Vladimir, Vera or Dmitri.
>
> But who on this List server does not know that all of us have access whenever
> we wish to that realm that we share at will with them, with one another, with
> the aurochs and angels?
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his death came as a stunning bolt from the black. Bereft of words, I borrow
from Paul Valéry¹s Le cimetière marin: Le don de vivre a passé dans les
fleurs.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
On 24/02/2012 01:05, "Susan Elizabeth Sweeney" <ssweeney@HOLYCROSS.EDU>
wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> I am too shocked and sad right now to say anything but how much I will miss
> his sprightly, generous, candid, charming presence and how comforted I am to
> be part of a community that knows what this loss means.
>
> Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
>
>
>>>> >>> Panayoti Kelaidis 02/23/12 6:32 PM >>>
> Ten days ago I drove along Lake Leman and made the pilgrimage to the Clarens
> cemetery and was photographed next to that rather odd VN statue in front of
> the Montreux Palace Hotel (I wonder how many of us re-re-readers have gone
> through that bittersweet ritual over the years?). I drove right through Vevey
> going and coming, not even realizing that Dmitri might have been spending his
> last days there.
>
> I regretted on previous trips as a young man passing through Switzerland that
> I never dropped by to pay my respects to VN, Years later, I likewise forwent
> the possibility of disturbing Vera... We good re-readers know that the
> physical, palpable presence would have probably been anticlimactic anyway,
> right?
>
> I have a greater regret that when Dmitri came to Denver (where I live) in the
> centenary year of VN's birth, on the grand lecture tour, practically to my
> doorstep I could not go because of the timing of a family loss.
>
> We are charmed and even thrilled (if ever so slightly envious) of those lucky
> enough to have had contact and conversations, proximity, even relationships
> with Vladimir, Vera or Dmitri.
>
> But who on this List server does not know that all of us have access whenever
> we wish to that realm that we share at will with them, with one another, with
> the aurochs and angels?
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