Daniel Singer's death

[Justin Schwartz]

Very bad indeed. Singer was brave, clear-sighted, unfailingly sensible and 
tough-mindedly optimistic--not an easy thing for a person of the left to be 
these twenty years. His prose was pellucid; his political insight, keen. He 
was a superb speaker: I saw him last fall in Chicago touting his testement, 
Whose Millenium? Of him it was true that

. . . but for me
The rulers sat easier. That was my hope,

as Brecht puts it. I can think of nothing finer to say about someone who was 
also a good person.

Daniel Singer, we will not forget.

--jks


>
>[Very bad news, though this is probably not the first that most people are 
>hearing of it. A fine man with fine politics. This notice from his widow is 
>making the rounds.]
>
>>Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 12:09:44 +0100
>>
>>Jeanne  Singer    (née Kérel)
>>sa famille, ses amis
>>font part du décès de
>>
>>         Daniel SINGER
>>Journaliste, écrivain, socialiste-luxemburgiste
>>  survenu le 2 décembre  2000
>>
>>  L’inhumation aura lieu le samedi 9 décembre,
>>  au cimetière Montparnasse  à 11h30,
>>  entrée principale au 3 bd Edgar Quinet
>>
>>  cet avis tient lieu de faire-part
>>  ni fleurs, ni couronnes
>>  dons à la “Daniel Singer Millenium Prize Foundation”
>>
>>     To-morrow the revolution will raise ahead again
>>     Proclaiming to your horror amid a brass of trumpets:
>>     I was, I am, I shall always be
>>
>>     Rosa Luxemburg (trad. en anglais)
>>
>>
>>13 rue de Bièvre, Paris 75005

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