Deaths in 2025

[FierceKitty]

Those three are good. The rest would have left no hole in my life by their absences.

[Gwydion]

You are probably right.
How far Can You Go I found amusing because it was essentially pulling apart a lot of religious, specifically Roman Catholic, dogma and I was probably at callow stage in my life when that felt a useful stance to take.
Therapy has a place in my memory I find hard to address too rationally - at the time I read it, I was going out with a female Methodist Minister who had studied Kierkegaardian philosophy at University, and I remember the discussions at 3 in the morning taking something of the spontaneity from the reading experience.
Deaf Sentence felt rather sad as it obviously reflected a personal descent and although there were interesting insights I wasn't sure they made a novel.
Thinks - you know... I read it and meant to read it again to try and discover what it was I missed, but somehow I've never got round to it. It felt a little gratuitous and self-consciously reworking old University tropes from his other works.
I'm glad I read the other things but it was the three in my first post that make me remember his work with great affection, if only for Maurice Zapp and Perrse McGarrigle.

[FierceKitty]

I'd like to meet Fulvia Morgana for a weekend, myself.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Linda Nolan

[Big Insect]

David Lynch, Director of the avant-garde film Eraserhead; the landmark TV series Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive, dies, aged 78. He specialised in surreal, noir style mysteries made a string of influential, critically acclaimed works.