Re: Yvonne Vera died (7-4-2005)

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]