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Subject: BS: Obit: Madeleine L'Engle 1918-2007 From: maeve Date: 08 Sep 07 - 06:10 PM Writer, actress, wife, mother, friend and amazing person, Madeleine L'Engle has died. I am sad, yet I am grateful at the same time for the generous life she lived. Thank you to her family for sharing her with the rest of us. I treasure her books, published journals, letters, and encouragement regarding my own writing. maeve New York Times obit |
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Subject: RE: BS: Obit: Madeleine L'Engle 1918-2007 From: gnu Date: 08 Sep 07 - 06:11 PM RIP and thanks for the body of great work. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Obit: Madeleine L'Engle 1918-2007 From: katlaughing Date: 08 Sep 07 - 06:44 PM "Why does anybody tell a story?" Ms. L'Engle once asked, even though she knew the answer. "It does indeed have something to do with faith," she said, "faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically." What a beautiful and elegant way to put it. And, by what an incredible storyteller. Sorry to hear of her passing. Thanks for this thread. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Obit: Madeleine L'Engle 1918-2007 From: harpmolly Date: 08 Sep 07 - 06:48 PM Oh my God! What a sad loss, though at least she died at a great age of natural causes. I must immediately dig up and re-read "A Ring of Endless Light". M |
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Subject: RE: BS: Obit: Madeleine L'Engle 1918-2007 From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 08 Sep 07 - 08:13 PM I was priviledged to know her personally during a tumultuous time in my young adulthood. She and my mother had become friends through an Episcopal women's society, and she mentored me during some rough patches. I was too stupid to keep up my end of the correspondance, but I cherish the memories of tea at her home in Goshen, tears in the library at St. John the Divine, and a shining example of a life lived really, truly, deeply. One strong albeit trivial memory from about 1983- I was trying to make my way as a young wife and mother in a town that could have been the inspiration for the Stepford wives- perfect homes, lawns, children, etc. I walked into her big old CT farmhouse into a room with a huge oriental rug that was vividly stained with grape juice. I never worried about being a perfect housewife again! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Obit: Madeleine L'Engle 1918-2007 From: Peace Date: 08 Sep 07 - 08:48 PM ___________________ 18 Washington Square South: A Comedy in One Act, 1944 The Small Rain, 1945 Ilsa, 1946 And Both Were Young, 1949 Camilla Dickinson, 1951 A Winter's Love, 1957 Meet the Austins, 1960 A Wrinkle in Time, 1962 The Moon By Night, 1963 The Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas, 1964 The Arm of the Starfish, 1965 Camilla, 1965 The Love Letters, 1966 A Journey With Jonah (a play), 1967 The Young Unicorns, 1968 Dance in the Desert, 1969 Lines Scribbled on an Envelope and Other Poems, 1969 The Other Side of the Sun, 1971 A Circle of Quiet, 1972 A Wind in the Door, 1973 Everyday Prayers, 1974 Prayers for Sunday, 1974 The Risk of Birth, 1974 The Summer of the Great Grandmother, 1974 Dragons in the Waters, 1976 The Irrational Season, 1977 A Swiftly Tilting Planet, 1978 The Weather of the Heart, 1978 Ladder of Angels, 1979 The Anti-Muffins, 1980 A Ring of Endless Light, 1980 Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art, 1980 A Severed Wasp, 1982 The Sphinx at Dawn, 1982 And It Was Good: Reflections on Beginnings, 1983 A House Like a Lotus, 1984 Trailing Clouds of Glory: Spiritual Values in Children's Literature, 1985 (with Avery Brooke) Many Waters, 1986 A Stone for a Pillow: Journeys with Jacob, 1986 A Cry Like a Bell, 1987 Two-Part Invention, 1988 An Acceptable Time, 1989 Sold Into Egypt: Joseph's Journey into Human Being, 1989 The Glorious Impossible, 1990 Certain Women, 1992 The Rock That is Higher, 1993 Anytime Prayers, 1994 Troubling a Star, 1994 Glimpses of Grace, 1996 (with Carole Chase) A Live Coal in the Sea, 1996 Penguins and Golden Calves: Icons and Idols, 1996 Wintersong, 1996 (with Luci Shaw) Bright Evening Star, 1997 Friends for the Journey, 1997 (with Luci Shaw) Mothers and Daughters, 1997 (with Maria Rooney) Miracle on 10th Street, 1998 A Full House, 1999 Mothers and Sons, 1999 (with Maria Rooney) Prayerbook for Spiritual Friends, 1999 (with Luci Shaw) The Other Dog, 2001 Madeleine L'Engle Herself: Reflections on a Writing Life, 2001 (with Carole Chase) The Ordering of Love: The New and Collected Poems of Madeleine L'Engle, 2005 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Obit: Madeleine L'Engle 1918-2007 From: maeve Date: 08 Sep 07 - 08:58 PM Thank you very much for the list of Madeleine's published work, Peace. There are even few I haven't read yet! I appreciate all the contributions folks have made to this thread. It helps. Thank you. maeve |
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Subject: RE: BS: Obit: Madeleine L'Engle 1918-2007 From: GUEST,Rapaire Date: 08 Sep 07 - 09:08 PM Oh, no. Another one of the greats is gone. We have several of her titles, autographed to the library, in our special collection. Including "A Wrinkle in Time." Oh, dear. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Obit: Madeleine L'Engle 1918-2007 From: Janie Date: 08 Sep 07 - 09:29 PM The trilogy that began with "A Wrinkle in Time" were all that I had read of her works. What a delight they were. May she rest in peace. Janie |
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Subject: RE: BS: Obit: Madeleine L'Engle 1918-2007 From: maeve Date: 08 Sep 07 - 09:33 PM Do read some of the others, Janie. I especially loved her poetry and journals as well as Ring of Endless Light, Wrinkle, etc. She had a wonderful sense of humor and gloried in humanity's search for God as well as God's search for man! maeve |
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Subject: RE: BS: Obit: Madeleine L'Engle 1918-2007 From: Mrrzy Date: 08 Sep 07 - 09:54 PM Aw man, another great lost. So sad, glad I read it here, where are the mainstream media when something important happens! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Obit: Madeleine L'Engle 1918-2007 From: bbc Date: 08 Sep 07 - 10:17 PM Again, I hear my important news on Mudcat first. What a loss. I love her writing. bbc |
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Subject: RE: BS: Obit: Madeleine L'Engle 1918-2007 From: Bee Date: 08 Sep 07 - 10:28 PM There are quite a few in that list I've not read, either, and I'm saving the list. I read the Wrinkle in Time series when I was ten... and again when I was fifteen... and again just last year. I call that a good and long life - thank you, Ms. Engle. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Obit: Madeleine L'Engle 1918-2007 From: CapriUni Date: 08 Sep 07 - 11:03 PM Well, damn. I love her writing and her sense of humor. She lived a full life, and she lived it generously. Can't really ask for more. (Well, you can, but that would be silly) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Obit: Madeleine L'Engle 1918-2007 From: maeve Date: 09 Sep 07 - 05:15 PM Speaking of Madeleine's Ring of Endless Light... Enjoy! maeve ************************ The World by Henry Vaughn 1621-1695 I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright; And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres Like a vast shadow mov'd; in which the world And all her train were hurl'd. The doting lover in his quaintest strain Did there complain; Near him, his lute, his fancy, and his flights, Wit's sour delights, With gloves, and knots, the silly snares of pleasure, Yet his dear treasure All scatter'd lay, while he his eyes did pour Upon a flow'r. The darksome statesman hung with weights and woe, Like a thick midnight-fog mov'd there so slow, He did not stay, nor go; Condemning thoughts (like sad eclipses) scowl Upon his soul, And clouds of crying witnesses without Pursued him with one shout. Yet digg'd the mole, and lest his ways be found, Work'd under ground, Where he did clutch his prey; but one did see That policy; Churches and altars fed him; perjuries Were gnats and flies; It rain'd about him blood and tears, but he Drank them as free. The fearful miser on a heap of rust Sate pining all his life there, did scarce trust His own hands with the dust, Yet would not place one piece above, but lives In fear of thieves; Thousands there were as frantic as himself, And hugg'd each one his pelf; The downright epicure plac'd heav'n in sense, And scorn'd pretence, While others, slipp'd into a wide excess, Said little less; The weaker sort slight, trivial wares enslave, Who think them brave; And poor despised Truth sate counting by Their victory. Yet some, who all this while did weep and sing, And sing, and weep, soar'd up into the ring; But most would use no wing. O fools (said I) thus to prefer dark night Before true light, To live in grots and caves, and hate the day Because it shews the way, The way, which from this dead and dark abode Leads up to God, A way where you might tread the sun, and be More bright than he. But as I did their madness so discuss One whisper'd thus, "This ring the Bridegroom did for none provide, But for his bride." Henry Vaughan |
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Subject: RE: BS: Obit: Madeleine L'Engle 1918-2007 From: maeve Date: 09 Sep 07 - 05:18 PM And from Madeleine L'Engle herself, in Ring of Endless Light(p. 166) via the character of Vicky: The earth will never be the same again. Rock, water, tree, iron share this grief As distant stars participate in pain. A candle snuffed, a falling star or leaf, A dolphin death, O this particular loss Is Heaven-mourned; for if no angel cried, If this small one was tossed away as dross, The very galaxies then would have lied. How shall we sing our love's song now In this strange land where all are born to die? Each tree and leaf and star show how The universe is part of this one cry, That every life is noted and cherished, And nothing loved is ever lost or perished. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Obit: Madeleine L'Engle 1918-2007 From: katlaughing Date: 09 Sep 07 - 07:02 PM Tears for the beauty of those poems posted. Thank you. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Obit: Madeleine L'Engle 1918-2007 From: Peace Date: 09 Sep 07 - 08:03 PM Her influence is going to continue. Read she has another book coming out. Keep a watch for it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Obit: Madeleine L'Engle 1918-2007 From: Dan Schatz Date: 10 Sep 07 - 05:25 PM I once had the opportunity to ask her if she was familiar with the Bob Zentz song she inspired, "Wrinkle in Time." She said, "Yes - I love it. I love all the music that comes out of Sharon Connecticut." Nice to know she was a lover of folk music as well as a great author. She'll be missed. Dan Schatz |
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Subject: RE: BS: Obit: Madeleine L'Engle 1918-2007 From: maeve Date: 10 Sep 07 - 06:02 PM She was interested in counterpoint, too, as I remember. Thanks, Dan. I'm glad to know she had heard and enjoyed Bob's song. maeve |
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Subject: RE: BS: Obit: Madeleine L'Engle 1918-2007 From: maeve Date: 11 Sep 07 - 05:25 PM Refresh, for those who may have missed it earlier. |
