# HG changeset patch # User Henry Thompson # Date 1757609645 14400 # Node ID 7f58116cd2fa1eef969adb3d2fab3ee61f4f3daf # Parent ba04e16fabc628494e7dcef1079478fbcdbe0ebf final diff -r ba04e16fabc6 -r 7f58116cd2fa funeral.txt --- a/funeral.txt Thu Sep 11 12:43:46 2025 -0400 +++ b/funeral.txt Thu Sep 11 12:54:05 2025 -0400 @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Quaker Meeting in Edinburgh, he could become a Quaker. I had to say that our normal application process took rather a long time, and usually was only initiated after someone had been attending Meeting -for Worship with us for quite a while. But then I remmebered that +for Worship with us for quite a while. But then I remembered that Brian had actually been married in a Quaker Meeting back in the early 1970s, and he thought that it might even have been in Toronto. If so, the preparation for that would have involved a similar kind of @@ -69,7 +69,15 @@ substantial, towering intellectually, a warm and tender friend, lover and husband. In the two 1/2 years since his terminal cancer diagnosis, although his body slowly degraded, he remained himself in -all the ways that mattered. +all the ways that mattered. His life spoke, to me and to many, and it +still does. + +Brian's physical living has come to an end, but his life is still as +real and true as the pyramids or the ignition of the Sun, and that +life, in its entirety, is still with us. Perhaps my excuse for not +being as devasted by his death as I expected to be is precisely that +I've been used to physical distance from him for so long. He was with +me then, and he still is. ... @@ -86,7 +94,7 @@ At this time Brian was running a major research lab at Xerox Palo Alto, co-founding Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility and helping -to create an interdisciplinary research center at Stanford. But being +to create an interdisciplinary research centre at Stanford. But being Brian, with Susan's help, he put together a plan for a compound, got Julian to design it, scraped together the money to build it, and moved in.