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Tanith Lee died last month. You probably never heard of her, but she rated a New York Times obit for her fantasy and horror novels. In a note to her readers before she died, she wrote of the writer's immortality:

"Though we come and go, and pass into the shadows, where we leave behind us stories told—on paper, on the wings of butterflies, on the wind, on the hearts of others—there we are remembered, there we work magic and great change—passing on the fire like a torch—forever and forever. Till the sky falls, and all things are flawless and need no words at all.”

Do you believe that?

Architects have buildings to show. Teachers have alums. Ditch diggers have ditches. What do writers have, aside from this weird statue of the "Anonymous Writer," in Budapest, Hungary? We have a closet full of yellowing clippings, an Internet scattered with dated references and mostly forgotten stories.

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