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But the minor seventh in the second measure is an alternative chording in the Record at Half-Circle
Anne McCaffrey has died.
I don't care that there are books of hers I will never be able to read again: in ninth grade, I made a blue-eyed, satin-gold fire lizard named Sheyne Meydl from a pattern I got from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
carik and she sits on my chest of drawers to this day, on top of the box which contains the necklace "Remember What You Say in Dreams." I read everything of hers my parents owned and scoured used book stores for the ones they didn't. Gone away, I thought of titling this post. Gone ahead. Her dragons were a great part of my imagination for years.
The OED's Word of the Day is Sturgeon's Law.
I don't care that there are books of hers I will never be able to read again: in ninth grade, I made a blue-eyed, satin-gold fire lizard named Sheyne Meydl from a pattern I got from
carik and she sits on my chest of drawers to this day, on top of the box which contains the necklace "Remember What You Say in Dreams." I read everything of hers my parents owned and scoured used book stores for the ones they didn't. Gone away, I thought of titling this post. Gone ahead. Her dragons were a great part of my imagination for years. The OED's Word of the Day is Sturgeon's Law.
Repost to correct annoying typo
Her books didn't fill the same space in my childhood that Piper's and a few others did, but they meant something to me, and did so much to inspire so many whose minds and works are dear to me. May she rest in peace.
Her dragons were a great part of my imagination for years.
Somewhere they're flying still.
The OED's Word of the Day is Sturgeon's Law.
I don't belive I have ever felt such affection for the OED before. I also had never realised that it was associated with a lecture at NYU, and I'm quietly pleased that NYU would allow an SF writer to lecture in the early Fifties.