Much Missed
My dear friend Ewen Green died last week at 47, after years of wrestling with multiple sclerosis. His obituary appears in today’s Independent.
My dear friend Ewen Green died last week at 47, after years of wrestling with multiple sclerosis. His obituary appears in today’s Independent.
Oh, that’s sad news indeed; I’m very sorry to hear it, Chris.
↓ Quote | Posted 23 September, 2006, 6:26 pmDefinitely sad news. He will be sorely missed.
↓ Quote | Posted 23 September, 2006, 8:44 pmHe sounds like he was a wonderful man..on reflection,Id like to suggest the closing paragraphs of After Virtue as an appropiate reading for his funeral
↓ Quote | Posted 24 September, 2006, 3:17 amJosh: Thanks.
Jason: Did he teach you?
Joseph: See your inbox.
↓ Quote | Posted 24 September, 2006, 3:07 pmSorry to hear that too.
I wonder what parts of A Theory of Justice could possibly be considered for a funeral.
↓ Quote | Posted 24 September, 2006, 10:22 pmI think the sort of person who’d want Rawls at a funeral might think that the last half paragraph or so of that, too, was rather inspiring…
↓ Quote | Posted 25 September, 2006, 12:09 amI think Sarah’s right: the closing passages are surprisingly eloquent, given Rawls’s reputation as a prose stylist (though he was also capable of magnificent lines like his own description of his book from the Introduction, or wherehaveyou: “it is a long book, and not only in pages”.)
↓ Quote | Posted 25 September, 2006, 5:14 amThat leaves one last conundrum..what passage from TS Eliots The Idea of A Christian Society would be appropiate?The only Eliot I own is the collected Poems and Plays..so I got Kermodes Selected Prose of TS Eliot out of the (meager) library of the Community College where (I try) to teach. The passages reprinted from Idea are excellent prose and..not surprisingly-powerful thinking. Iwill mail you one such as soon as possible.
↓ Quote | Posted 26 September, 2006, 2:18 amSorry to hear about your loss.
↓ Quote | Posted 27 September, 2006, 10:36 amI am very sorry indeed to hear this. Ewen turned up at Magd just after I’d left, and I’d heard many good things about him. Only had the pleasure of meeting him once, but it was a real pleasure.
↓ Quote | Posted 28 September, 2006, 5:54 pmGuardian obituary here.
↓ Quote | Posted 1 October, 2006, 12:19 amAnd Don Paskini has more.
↓ Quote | Posted 3 October, 2006, 11:15 am