July 19, 2009
On Frank
My classmate Daniel Radosh has posted a sweet remembrance of Frank McCourt. (With yearbook photo!)
Beyond the practical lessons I learned in Frank McCourt’s class, I’ll always remember him as a model for how to be cynical without being jaded and sarcastic without being inhumane. I’m pretty sure he did not believe in God or an afterlife, but he had to believe that there is an immortality in living so that your words and actions transform the world around you in ways that will continue to reverberate forever. No one with so much life in him can ever truly die. And if there were an afterlife, I can guarantee you that somewhere right now, Frank McCourt would be mightily pissed off that he’s not around for what’s sure to be a hell of a wake.
—Daniel Radosh, “Why not almost any other famous person?“
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Truly a funny,witty man who I had the privilidge of meeting several times but little did i realize that years later I would be reading his published wit ,tender and heartfelt passages.A unique man.