John M. Ford
Sep. 25th, 2006 08:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfishGodspeed, Mr Ford.
In an effort to cheer myself and you up, there's this post from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
elisem, from a couple weeks ago. (Warning: contains the word "mammalversary.")
I know this is a great and terrible loss to those who actually /knew/ Mr Ford. But all I can think of is that there will be no more _Dragon Waiting_, no more "The Hemstitch Notebooks" or _Yellow Clearance Black Box Blues_, no more Harry of Five Points or "Balaclava: The Empire Strikes Back to Highly Questionable Effect" or Chekov's gun over the mantelpiece ("Hang the phaser over the holographic fireplace in the Captain's quarters, Mr. Chekov! Chop down the cherry orchard, Mr. Chekov! Embarrass yourself with Harcourt Fenton Mudd's three so-called 'sisters,' Mr. Chekov! Let me tell you something, Gospodin Sulu: if the Captain ever orders Mr. Chekov to take the phaser down from over the holographic fireplace, you had better not go on the Bridge until the zapping stops.").
Heat death or cold, in randomness or Cause,
It is not how it ends, but what it was.
--JMF, "Cosmology: A User's Manual"
In an effort to cheer myself and you up, there's this post from
elisem, from a couple weeks ago. (Warning: contains the word "mammalversary.")I know this is a great and terrible loss to those who actually /knew/ Mr Ford. But all I can think of is that there will be no more _Dragon Waiting_, no more "The Hemstitch Notebooks" or _Yellow Clearance Black Box Blues_, no more Harry of Five Points or "Balaclava: The Empire Strikes Back to Highly Questionable Effect" or Chekov's gun over the mantelpiece ("Hang the phaser over the holographic fireplace in the Captain's quarters, Mr. Chekov! Chop down the cherry orchard, Mr. Chekov! Embarrass yourself with Harcourt Fenton Mudd's three so-called 'sisters,' Mr. Chekov! Let me tell you something, Gospodin Sulu: if the Captain ever orders Mr. Chekov to take the phaser down from over the holographic fireplace, you had better not go on the Bridge until the zapping stops.").
Heat death or cold, in randomness or Cause,
It is not how it ends, but what it was.
--JMF, "Cosmology: A User's Manual"
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Date: 2006-09-25 02:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-25 05:35 pm (UTC)*hugs*