<div><div dir="auto">And, of course, a stanza of a famous hymn.</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Fernando</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 7:06 PM Ab de Vos <<a href="mailto:foxyab@casema.nl">foxyab@casema.nl</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>The text is a citation/paraphrase or strongly reminiscent of
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"A thousand ages in thy sight / Are like an evening gone; /
Short as the watch that ends the night / Before the rising
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Goodnight, Gene.</div>
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Here is a link to Tor's obit: <a href="https://www.tor.com/2019/04/15/gene-wolfe-in-memoriam-1931-2019/" id="m_-1371247786664602222LPlnk930875" target="_blank">https://www.tor.com/2019/04/15/gene-wolfe-in-memoriam-1931-2019/</a><span></span><br>
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The science fiction and fantasy community has lost a
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