A friend just sent me this clip of Liam Rector reciting Emily Dickinson's After Great Pain at a gathering in honor of Donald Hall a few years back. Voices from the dead. After commenting that he enjoyed the day's panels and that he's really a panel slut, Liam calls himself a "master of the inappropriate" and explains his penchant for uttering the inappropriate, "Because I think the world seems, to me, so vastly inappropriate that I'm so confused. Really I couldn't say an appropriate thing if my life depended on it."
He supposes that he's remembered as a teacher because of this. I would say he's remembered because he had an enormous intellect, was a generous teacher and was a fearless critic, too.
Liam took his own life last year, 2007. Here, I suppose, is the final mastery. Here is the "formal feeling," left in his wake--the "chill, then stupor, then the letting go."
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