Goodbye DNA
Well I know its a bit dated now, but still this will stay here as the central peace of my page here (although I finally got around editing it for spelling an grammar a wee bit)
I still can't believe it.
I first encountered H2G2 when the series was broadcast on german televison. Back then there was no way we could afford a VCR, so I taped the whole thing with a taperecorder put in front of the telly and had to ask my mom to be really quiet (still you could hear us giggling on the tape). I listened to these tapes for about a million times. Then I picked up the books... I don't think I'd be the bookworm I am now without his books. Of course back then there were only two books out, I got the 3rd one when I first went to London and made my Mom (I was still only 12 or such) help me track it down in a small bookstore near Victoria Station It was the first ever book in English I read... It was pure magic... So without DNA I propably wouldn't be as fascinated by the English language as I am today... With the guys from school who also read the books, I took up roleplaying games. Many years later I would meet my wife through roleplaying.
So DNA really changed my life.
I had the pleasure of meeting him here in Göttingen, when he had his first reading in front of an not English speaking audience and was happy enough to have my towel signed by him.
The way he told his stories (mostly Last chance to see) and read from his books was fascinating. I must have listened to the CD of that reading for about a thousand times.
And now he's gone. We all suffer a terrible loss. But not one of us, how ever dear he was to us, looses a husband or a father.
So my thoughts and my love are with Jane and especially Polly, for while we still can laugh when we read his books, she will never again be hugged by her father.
DNA, you will be deeply missed,
Tom Schmidt
Göttingen, Germany
who will now creep into bed and see if he can watch the videos withot starting to cry...
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