becoming attached to people you�ve never met �IRL�

I found out right after thanksgiving that Hugh Kenner died right before thanksgiving. I didn�t know Hugh as the world knew him, an Ezra Pound biographer and literary critic. I knew him as �one of the writers on BIX�. What was BIX? BIX stood for Byte Information exchange (Byte = Byte magazine). It was one of the first commercialized online services (pre-dating AOL, MSN) that started around the same time as CompuServe and GEnie. I logged on in �87 and was active until �96ish. I think it�s still around or has morphed into something else�I do not know. I knew Hugh from BIX. I helped Hugh transcribe his audio tape recordings of his interview with Chuck Jones for the book he wrote, �A portrait of American genius: Chuck Jones�. He was a science fiction fan and he was a general nice guy who cared about everything and could debate about anything. I never met him in person, and yet I knew he was all of these things. He became a friend. I wish I had met him in person. And now it�s too late.

Goodbye, Hugh.

Posted by jennj at December 6, 2003 12:49 PM