Richard John Taylor

"To lose somebody is to lose not only their person but all those modes and manifestations into which their person has flowed outwards; so that in losing a beloved one may find so many things, pictures, poems, melodies, places lost too: Dante, Avignon, a song of Shakespeare's, the Cornish sea." ? Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head This man fired up my ongoing love for the English language. And he could do that in a very authentic way, setting an example I will never forget. He enriched my life and still does.