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[hildy]

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick died on Sunday. I only met her a couple of times, at various guest lectures, and she was always surrounded by adoring fans--of which I am certainly one. She was a rockstar, you know? And yet she was warm and generous and brilliant--even to know-nothing little grad students like me. Anyone ever tells you they're brilliant and then they don't behave with her grace, well, they're wrong. The world's a sadder place without her. I'm going to go cry a little, can't seem to help it, and then celebrate her brilliance--I think class today should be reading her work--not on the syllabus but whatever.

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[copracat]

She wrote with such style and humour. I enjoyed reading Epistemology of the Closet so much, because of it. And it left me with the image of Avon chasing Blake endlessly across a planet of quarries.

[smallbeer.livejournal.com]

It's a big loss, losing her. ::hugs you::

[hildyj.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I love to read her work--when I grow up, I want to write sentences like that. As to Avon and Blake, well, who wouldn't have that image? ;)

[hildyj.livejournal.com]

It's weird, it's not like I really knew her. But when I read the news, I got teary-eyed. ::hugs you back::