[Fwd: Poul Anderson]

[Amanda Lewanski]

Not terribly HP-related, but enough of you read fantasy and might care.
If you also happen to be in the SCA, know that Sir Bela of Eastmarch has
passed.

--Amanda

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Subject: Poul Anderson
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 20:27:08 -0500
From: twilson at ag-eco.tamu.edu
To: Amanda Lewanski <editor at texas.net>

ok, got this on a mailing list, looks like Poul died last night.

Troyce

Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 10:33:35 -0700
  From: Karen Anderson <trigonier at earthlink.net>
  Reply-To: trigonier at earthlink.net
  Subject: Poul

  Poul Anderson died at home near midnight, Tuesday July 31, 2001.  He
had
  come home that day to receive hospice care after kidney failure
brought
  on by prostate cancer.

  His last day was spent with family and friends.  He enjoyed his final
  meals, and especially a Jubilaeum akvavit and Carlsberg beer.

  He was pleased and warmed by the many e-mails he received from friends
  and strangers around the world who had been touched by his writing.

  Special thanks go to Diana Paxson, Geoff Kidd, and Gerry Nordley, who
  helped greatly in his homecoming.  

  A memorial gathering is planned for 2pm, Saturday, August 4 at the
  First Unitarian Church of Oakland, 685 14th Street, Oakland. 
Following
  that, a small wake will be held at Greyhaven.

  Karen Anderson writes:  

  Integer Vitae

  In Poul's last hours, messages poured in from strangers who told how
  they had learned honor and courage from his writing, courtesy and
  kindness from his personal example.  Such tributes cannot be awarded,
  but only earned.

  He led his life without expecting to gain rewards or escape punishment
  in some other existence.  He knew that good and evil arise from human
  nature, and believed it is our duty to choose the good.  He was, in
the
  words of the poet Horace, "integer vitae sclerisque purus" -- a man of
  blameless life and free of crime.