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• Title: Lou Budd (1921-2010) (In Memoriam)
• Author : Mark Twain Circular
• Release Date : January 01, 2011
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 45 KB

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When an icon disappears we notice a change on the horizon or the building-scape. When a friend has died, perhaps a faint chill, not enough to stop us, for long, from going on. I don't know what that has to do with Lou Budd, who was always at great lengths to avoid anything pompous or overblown, but his passing means a lot. Lou Budd was a humble person, not because of the line he used to relish about Calvin Coolidge: "He was a humble man, and indeed he had much to be humble about." It simply was his nature, with his kindly disposed, smiling appreciation of life, and, of course, of life's ironies. He has meant a lot to Twain scholarship, but he has also meant a lot to Twain scholars, too, and the ways in which we relate to each other-and all to the good, as near as I can tell. To go much deeper into the generalities of funeral orgies would be pompous, and for Lou's sake anything would be better than that. He was a youngster during the depression, and at the height of his career he was not above picking up a penny in the street, professional dignity notwithstanding. I read, in preparation for this brief memorial (feeling inadequate for it, might be more accurate), Jackson Bryers' thoughtful acknowledgement of Lou Budd as recipient of the 1998 Hubbell award, a statement which very well caught the essence of Lou Budd. But as I read the list of works and prizes, I was surprised at how little a bibliography or a list of honors had anything to do with the real Lou Budd I knew and admired, even though Prof. Bryers got the sense of Lou very well.

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