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[sabotabby]

I've just heard that someone who I know only over LiveJournal, but who I nevertheless consider a good friend, is dying. Doubtless, by now, many of you know too.

It's all too sudden and horrible I'm stunned and rather inarticulate at the moment. All I can do is repeat what others have said – my love to you, Jeff, and to your friends and family. I hope that you have an idea of how much you mean to us.

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dobrovolets had a rather good idea. If any one quality characterizes wouldprefernot2 (at least for those of us who knew him over LJ) it would have to be his utter passion for books. Every so often, he would make a post asking us all: "What are you reading?"

In the end, we're only the sum of our thoughts and experiences and knowledge.

What are you reading?

Comments

[incendiarymind.livejournal.com]

Losing someone on LiveJournal sucks as bad as losing someone in real life. My friend pressure24 died in 2003. She and I never really talked much on here but I used to really loved her posts. It's almost rougher to lose someone on here because you have all of these writings from them from when they were healthy and (in most cases) vibrant to look at.

I feel for you.

[sabotabby]

I'm sorry about your friend, too.

It's crazy, really. When you get to know someone through their writing, you often feel like you know that person more than if you knew him or her in real life.

Still, judging from my friends list, I think there are a lot of us right now that are wishing we knew each other in person. Some things are just easier to say than to type out.

[incendiarymind.livejournal.com]

Her death was kind of sudden but she had severe asthma. The great thing is no one dropped her at all. All of her friends (at least the ones on my friends list) have kind of this shrine to pressure24 to always keep her memory alive.

This is becoming slightly obsessive, sorry

[dobrovolets.livejournal.com]

What is everyone reading?

Re: This is becoming slightly obsessive, sorry

[sabotabby]

That's probably a good idea, actually. ::edits entry::

[mcsokrates.livejournal.com]

I knew wouldprefernot2 only distantly, but i will share my readings in commemoration nonetheless.

I'm going through the back issues of The American Historical Review and Comparative Studies in Society and History via the wonders of JSTOR and the History Cooperative. On my list at the moment: "Conversion, Sex, and Segregation: Jews and Christians in Medieval Spain" by David Nirenberg, "Stalin, Man of the Borderlands" by Alfred J. Rieber, "Gridded Lives: Why Kazakhstan and Montana Are Nearly the Same Place" by Kate Brown, "A Time of Reconquest: History, the Maya Revival, and the Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas" by Thomas Benjamin, "Religious Education and the Rhetoric of Reform: The Madrasa in British India and Pakistan" by Muhammad Qasim Zaman and "Can a Muslim Be an Indian?" by Gyanendra Pandey.

As for other things, I am reading "Ruled Brittania" by Harry Turtledove, and after that I intend on reading "Exultant" by Stephen Baxter.