Archive for August, 2007


Elegy for Liam Rector, 1949 – 2007

Suicide is a sucker punch, he would say, at least for a friend, impossible to withstand with any dignity, without tears and bellymoaning and rage (though rage against what?), forcing you to rethink every conversation you can remember, especially the ones about life, it’s meaning, its folly.
I first met Liam in 1997 [...]