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  • Yvonne Vera died (7-4-2005)

    From Ross Clark@21:1/5 to All on Mon Apr 8 09:40:07 2024
    Is Crystal death-obsessed? Seems to me there have been more deathdays
    than birthdays so far (I haven't counted). Maybe it's just because I am
    more used to the idea of celebrating the latter than the former.

    Anyhow...Yvonne Vera. Born Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia, 1964.
    Lived mainly in Canada from 1980s.
    Black (I had to look). Post-colonial African literature.

    "Vera wrote obsessively, often for 10 hours a day, and described time
    when she was not writing as "a period of fasting"." (Wiki, cf. Asimov)

    Crystal quotes from _Under the Tongue_ (1996) a striking passage beginning:

    "Grandmother pulls a word from her mouth and places it under my tongue..."

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Vera

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  • From HenHanna@21:1/5 to Ross Clark on Sun Apr 7 16:29:15 2024
    XPost: alt.books.james-joyce, alt.literature

    On 4/7/2024 2:40 PM, Ross Clark wrote:
    Is Crystal death-obsessed? Seems to me there have been more deathdays
    than birthdays so far (I haven't counted). Maybe it's just because I am
    more used to the idea of celebrating the latter than the former.

    Anyhow...Yvonne Vera. Born Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia, 1964.
    Lived mainly in Canada from 1980s.
    Black (I had to look). Post-colonial African literature.

    "Vera wrote obsessively, often for 10 hours a day, and described time
    when she was not writing as "a period of fasting"." (Wiki, cf. Asimov)

    Crystal quotes from _Under the Tongue_ (1996) a striking passage beginning:

    "Grandmother pulls a word from her mouth and places it under my tongue..."

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Vera



    Is Crystal death-obsessed? Seems to me there have been more deathdays
    than birthdays so far (I haven't counted). Maybe it's just because I am
    more used to the idea of celebrating the latter than the former.


    Most likely just a result of "balancing" -- a person naturally has 2
    places (dates) to go in the book ... (and 1 page per date) ...


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    seeing that... Crystal seems very AA (affirmative-action) minded... the book must surely contain an entry
    on the famous African author of [Things Fall Apart]

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