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[thistlerose]

* RIP, Madeleine L'Engle. I loved her in smallish doses. I named my laptop for her.

* I'm going to see Sir Ian McKellen at the Guthrie next month! Not in King Lear or The Seagull, unfortunately, but at something called Global Voices, where I guess he's going to have a dialogue with some other theater people. I treated myself to good seats,

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[3goodtimes]

Oh no! Madeleine L'Engle died?

That makes me sad. Calvin was my first ever crush.

[thistlerose]

I should really reread A Wrinkle In Time. It's been well over ten years.

A Swiftly Tilting Planet was the one that captured my heart, even though I was never into Charles Wallace.

It feels so weird when a beloved author dies. L'Engle was quite elderly, so it's no surprise, but when the things a person writes are timeless, one tends to think of the writer as timeless too. I'm still having trouble wrapping my head around Lloyd Alexander's death. I'm rereading one of his books right now, and...he just feels so alive to me.

[egyptian_moon]

*Envy*

[thistlerose]

*preens*

[longleggedgit]

I'm seeing him at the Guthrie next month, too!! In The Seagull. Win! *hugs*

I'm so sad about Madeline. :(

[thistlerose]

You SO win! :)

Oh, Sir Ian.

[emelye_miller]

WTF? Madeleine L'Engle died? *shock...sniffle*

[thistlerose]

I know. She's one of those people who just aren't supposed to die. She's supposed to be as timeless as her books. :(

[emelye_miller]

I always thought there had to be something vaguely otherworldly about the woman who wrote A Wrinkle in Time.

[thistlerose]

I think there was. I mean, even though faith in God permeated many of her stories, and even though I have none (faith in God, that is) her obvious love of and wonder at the universe got to me hard. Some things just...transcend.