Re: Marshall RIP
by doogles on May 10th, 2016, 7:37 pm
Marshall’s passing came as a slight shock to me. Obviously his cancer would have been fairly long-standing but he never implied in any way in his posts that he had any problems of any kind. He was positive and apparently enthusiastic about everything he said. He was always constructive and apparently very knowledgeable in the fields of cosmology, in the classics and in anything relating to academe.
I would love to have met him in person. I suspect that the impish image he used to represent himself was a reasonable reflection of his own character.
Although his main interests were slightly different from mine, I always used to view his posts out of interest. To my mind he was a stable rock in this forum, and as John Donne would have said, I feel that a part of this island forum has gone, with degree of loss to all of us.