[Leica] Ten years ago today

[Douglas Barry]

A nice tribute too, John.

Douglas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Beeching" <johnbeeching at gmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2014 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Ten years ago today


> Dear Nathan,
>
> A very moving story, which made me remember my father.  He joined the 
> Party
> while still at school, joined up to fight fascism never expecting to
> survive, refused to become an officer and finally left the Party after
> Hungary.  Nevertheless, his heart was always with the working class and 
> the
> oppressed.  After the war his life was one of a bohemian writer who lived
> in more countries than most people have hot dinners.  While his life may
> have been unconventional and he did sacrifice others along he way, he was
> always true to his beliefs. I was born in '51 and my childhood was one of
> material poverty but intellectual richness.  It was only later in life,
> when we could spar intellectually over much wine, that I came most to
> respect and understand him - in fact we could converse in a kind 
> shorthand,
> which no one else could understand, for we knew each other's thought
> processes so well.  For a long time after his death I carried on having
> conversations with him in my head (it felt as if I had no one else I could
> really talk to) and, on the anniversary of his death I always pour two
> glasses of whisky, which he was not supposed to drink towards the end, but
> we always used to when I visited him in Spain, and drink to his memory.  I
> named my youngest son, who was born a few weeks before his death and he
> never met, Jack, after him.
> http://jacketmagazine.com/26/beech-l-w.html
>
> John
>
> On 1 November 2014 05:23, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:
>
>> Today also happens to be my birthday, but I have not really felt like
>> celebrating it the past ten years:
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>> http://www.frozenlight.eu/nathanfoto/far.html
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>> Cheers,
>> Nathan
>>
>> Nathan Wajsman
>> Alicante, Spain
>> http://www.frozenlight.eu
>> http://www.greatpix.eu
>> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
>> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
>> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator
>> YNWA
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> -- 
> John Beeching
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