those who are about to die say, "Shit! We're not about to die!"

(From sffnet discussion about the blog that said I was only getting the Grand Master because I was about to die . . . )

Esther, I never reply to malicious fan mail, or blogs, but I did drop this guy (who was nothing like malicious) a note to correct a factual error. They don't just suddenly say "Let's give this guy a Grand Master"; it's a long process of mailings and discussion. So they couldn't have decided to give me the distinction just as I stepped quavering out of the hospital.

I didn't ...