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Yvonne Vera died (7-4-2005)

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From: benlizro@ihug.co.nz (Ross Clark)
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Subject: Yvonne Vera died (7-4-2005)
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by: Ross Clark - Sun, 7 Apr 2024 21:40 UTC

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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by: HenHanna - Sun, 7 Apr 2024 23:29 UTC

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) ...

__________________________
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]

The Universe is populated by stable things. -- Richard Dawkins

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Subject	Author
Yvonne Vera died (7-4-2005)	Ross Clark
Re: Yvonne Vera died (7-4-2005)	HenHanna