Re: NEWS - Terry Pratchett: Alzheimer's disease is now affecting my work

PJ goes:

Towse wrote:

<http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article4019605.ece>

Damn.

Yeah. Damn is right. I found that while researching a book on
Alzheimer's that I'm writing now, and it's yet one more heartbreaking
story about this ungodly tragic disease.

In one way, Alzheimer's is a disease that writers have already got
beat, because their memories are in fixed and indelible form, and
can't be wiped out by the vagaries of a few rogue neurons.

Hugo Claus, generally recognised as Dutch-speaking Belgium's foremost
literary figure, recently died as a result of euthanasia, which he'd
arranged as part of a living will when he found out he was suffering
from Alzheimer's. He was married for a time to that Sylvia Kristel out
of the Emmanuelle films with the smutty filth.

Elsewhere, but also in Belgium, the great investigative journalist
Walter De Bock also died recently, slightly less recently, also
suffering from Alzheimer's. Just after being diagnosed, he donated his
entire archive of documents, notes, drafts, tapes, who knows what, to
the University of Leuven, where it will be administered by the society
of journalists type thingy, and open to all researchers of whatever
stripe, as well as (to a more limited extent) members of the public
who present a good reason. That's another way of keeping memory alive,
and not just for Walter.


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