Janet Frame is dead.

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pretty much the greatest ever NZ author, the great neglected postmodernist, etc etc etc, succumbed to cancer-related complications today. almost been in tears.

― etc, Thursday, 29 January 2004 05:26 (twenty-one years ago)

"The apparent purity and vastness of his feeling gave him, in my eyes, a kind of greatness, for I feel that language in its widest sense is the hawk suspended above eternity, feeding from it but not of its substance and not necessarily for its life and thus never able to be translated into it; only able by a wing movement, so to speak, a cry, a shadow, to hint at what lies beneath it on the untouched, undescribed almost unknown plain."

― etc, Thursday, 29 January 2004 05:27 (twenty-one years ago)

just beaten to the Nobel by Coetzee in 03. sigh.

― etc, Thursday, 29 January 2004 05:30 (twenty-one years ago)

oh no :-(
just started reading Scented Gardens For The Blind recently, I can't put into words what it makes me feel like reading her work... happy and sad and thoughtful and completely drawn into the story, well this is really sad news.

― Pious Twin (abennett), Thursday, 29 January 2004 05:48 (twenty-one years ago)

!!!!

Thats awful to hear. RIP Janet, your stories really meant a lot to me. I shall go and read some again in memory.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 29 January 2004 05:58 (twenty-one years ago)

"I was put into hospital because a great gap opened in the ice between myself and the other people whom I watched. I was alone on the ice. I was not yet civilised. I traded my safety for glass beads of fantasy."

― etc, Thursday, 29 January 2004 06:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm really afraid about how, now she's dead, she'll so easily be reduced to (a) caricature & (b) an industry.

― etc, Thursday, 29 January 2004 06:37 (twenty-one years ago)

she already was though? I know what you mean though (a bit)

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Thursday, 29 January 2004 10:12 (twenty-one years ago)

etc, I just had my email bounce back frm yr svnteeeeeesmkat address; can you pls email me your new one? sorry I keep getting confused about - I probably already know it.

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Thursday, 29 January 2004 10:16 (twenty-one years ago)

The only famous person apart from him out of Aztec Camera who shares my surname as far as I know.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 29 January 2004 10:53 (twenty-one years ago)

rip, my god, I loved what she did with her words.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 29 January 2004 11:08 (twenty-one years ago)

One of my very favorite writers. I cherish her books. For years i contemplated sendeing her a letter to tell her how much she meant to me, but i always chickened out. Rest in peace, indeed. I'm kinda glad she didn't win a nobel. She was better than that. Now i feel like crying.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 29 January 2004 13:02 (twenty-one years ago)

truly wonderful writer, and had a difficult, reclusive life. hope she's remembered properly.

― paulhw (paulhw), Thursday, 29 January 2004 23:11 (twenty-one years ago)

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