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Re: Farewell

From: aevans2 tds.net <aevans2~at~tds.net>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:44:09 -0400
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

The field of Verne studies has just lost one of its giants. Both as a
scholar and as a long-time friend, he will be sorely missed.

Art


On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Brian Taves <briantaves1879~at~yahoo.com>wrote:

> I have just had a call from Walter James Miller's daughter, Naomi, that
> he passed away last night.
>
> His 1965 edition of 20,000 Leagues was responsible for bringing me to an
> intellectual understanding of Verne, and his personal kindness was no less
> meaningful.
>
> It is seldom given to us to actually meet someone whose name we have long
> looked up to, but I had that pleasure during a trip east in 1990. NYU gave
> me his phone number, and we had lunch the next day. I was fortunate to be
> able to count him as a friend for the next 20 years.
>
> My only wish was that he had lived to know that the NAJVS had already
> decided to dedicate to him our third volume in the Palik Series, The Count
> of Chanteleine. And we are about to begin checking page proofs of the first
> volume, for which he provided an introduction.
>
> So his legacy, his inspiration, and his scholarship live on.
>
>
> Brian Taves
>
>
Received on Wed 23 Jun 2010 - 03:44:17 IDT

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