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This was posted by M Small on the ZICG list regarding Charlie Barringer.
Too bad. I always wanted to meet Charlie.
Javier
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[ZICG] Ich Hatte Eine Kamarad
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 11:11 PM
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Few of us are allowed to have a
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[ZICG] Ich Hatte Eine Kamarad
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 11:11 PM
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"Marc James Small" <marcsmall at comcast.net>Add sender to Contacts
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Few of us are allowed to have a
Few of us are allowed to have a REALLY good
friend who is so close that you can draft a book
together without killing each other. I was so
blessed with Charlie Barringer. There were
times when I did pick up the odd Belgian Block
with the intent to do bodily harm to Charlie for
his obstinacy but, in the end, we worked things out.
Charlie was a sure and certain backstop to my
impetuous musings on Zeiss lore. Now, he is
gone, and so poor Simon Worseley is going to have
to step up to keep me in line. Yes, Charlie and
I disagreed on a lot of points. As these got
resolved, he was more often right than wrong,
though, well, I held my own on some points.
I am very surprised at how upset I am by his
death. I know that Charlie is now seated at a
table with Heinz K?ppenbender and Hubert Nerwin
and Ernst Wandersleb and Hans Sauer, all of them
with a stein of good Belgian beer in front of
them and talking about all the questions Charlie
took to his grave. Now he has the answers. The
rest of us will have to wait a while! But I feel
a gap in my life and a real sadness.
I will have to make some phone calls over the
next several days to folks without 'Net access
who knew Charlie to tell them of his
passing. This will be a sad business, as two of
them held Charlie in the highest regard.
Charlie deserves a grand obituary, but I feel too
sad at the moment to do the task justice. He was
a giant of a man and a giant of a scholar. He was
pig-headed and obstinant and often wrong. But he
always threw himself into a project of enquiry
and he always applied that wonderful and febrile
intellect to the issue at hand. He possessed a
scholar's mind and a scholar's approach to
questions presented to him. It might take him
ten years to get back to you once you asked him a
question, but he would get back to you, and
generally with more information than was
necessary. That was Charlie in a nutshell.
I hope I am wrong in the saying of this, but I
doubt that we shall meet his like again in our
lifetimes. He was an ace in so many regards.
Yes, I once had a friend ....
Marc
msmall at aya.yale. edu
Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!
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