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Friday, November 22. 2024

Gerard Van der Leun

Gerard was an email pal, and I was a devoted reader of his site American Digest.


Somebody collected a bunch of his essays: The Name in the Stone.


I see that it was neoneo who did that work.



Posted by Bird Dog at 14:57 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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The somebody blogs as neoneocon and was his partner for the last years of his life.
#1 Clovis Sangrail on 2024-11-22 15:05 (Reply)
Thanks for that info.
#1.1 Bird Dog on 2024-11-22 16:00 (Reply)
Yes, and here are Neo's posts on Gerard Vanderleun, aggregated.

https://www.thenewneo.com/tag/gerard-vanderleun/
#1.2 Erasmus on 2024-11-22 18:59 (Reply)
I only discovered American Digest a year and a half prior to Mr. Van der Leun's passing'. Like many or probably most I thoroughly enjoyed his writing, knowledge, humor and insight.

After he left us I spent many hours going back through his archives enjoying his older posts.

I have ordered a hardcover copy - Thank you for posting this!
#2 ML Thomas on 2024-11-22 17:50 (Reply)
It was pure coincidence but we lived very very close to Gerard during some of the years we were in Seattle. He knew some of the groups I would refer to in my observations about Seattle. He helped me on several occasions by acknowledging what I was witness to.

I miss his words very much--never a misdirection, never a quick and careless do. Pure gold almost every time!
#3 faculty wife on 2024-11-22 18:01 (Reply)
I greatly miss Gerard's insights and writing. I offered him a small contribution for his efforts. He graciously sent hand written reply, which was on our hutch for some time.
#4 Mark on 2024-11-22 22:25 (Reply)
I used to visit his site every day. He was a very fine essayist, and a near contemporary.

I found Neo Neocon by accident, and I follow her, too.
#5 bob sykes on 2024-11-23 08:42 (Reply)
He is much missed. Read him for years. Started right after he had his near death heart attack. Had his sticker on my truck. Nobody else like him.
#6 Gary D Foster on 2024-11-23 14:10 (Reply)

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