R. I. P. Astrid Lindgren

[Otto]

I've read most of her books (except Rasmus, the Bros. Lionheart & Kalle
Blomquist yet) to my daughter the last three and a half years and I am more
impressed than some decades ago. We simply love Mischievous Meg aka Madita.

Astrid Lindgren has always said that children have an original right to get
good books to read. Well, she's written some of the finest.

It's good to hear she died after only a short time of disease.

Otto

----- Original Message -----
From: Heikki Raudaskoski <hraudask at mail.student.oulu.fi>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 7:28 PM
Subject: Re: R. I. P. Astrid Lindgren

On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 KXX4493553 at aol.com wrote:

> She died in the age of 84.

> Kurt-Werner Pörtner

How melancholy news.

Thanks for sharing, Kurt-Werner. (So much preferable to hear it
serenely on the list, as the Nordic media will proclaim the
news from the housetops as soon as I leave the working cubicle.)

As there might be listers who have experienced Lindgren only via
the ghastly animations, I hope nobody would mind if I enclose the
first paragraphs of _Pippi Longstocking_ (orig. 1945) as a homage
to a great writer and wonderful person (I think she was 94 already):
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From: http://www.interlog.com/~wings/jane/a_lindgren/pippi.html

Heikki