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May. 20th, 2008 11:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Have just been listening to "On the Ropes" on BBC R 4, with Terry Pratchett talking about his Alzheimers diagnosis, and am now feeling decidedly sniffly, not just because it's terribly sad, but because I am so filled with admiration for the way he's taking it - with humour, courage, refusal to be made helplessly miserable, and a good deal of gumption (you can tell he's Granny Weatherwax's creator).
JH: And yet you must have bad moments - dark nights of the soul.
TP: Yes, of course I do. But we all have those, anyway. And then you get up in the morning.
I'm slightly in awe of him, actually - I wish I had half his guts and hopefulness.
JH: And yet you must have bad moments - dark nights of the soul.
TP: Yes, of course I do. But we all have those, anyway. And then you get up in the morning.
I'm slightly in awe of him, actually - I wish I had half his guts and hopefulness.
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Date: 2008-05-20 11:21 pm (UTC)... not that I think I'm even remotely capable of doing anything VC-worthy, mind. But I do think the other's of a higher order of courage.
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Date: 2008-05-21 08:34 am (UTC)a bunch of corrupt paedophiles
Curious - I thought that stereotype had just about sunk without trace,give or take the odd choirboy joke. The high camp Anglo-Catholic ("sodomites with unpleasant accents..."), yes, but that's obviously not at all the same thing.
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