RIP Deborah Orr

Got an order in for Motherwell.
The closest I’m going to get to Self’s memoir is the inevitable piss-take in Private Eye.

I’m shocked her Twitter has gone. I think that’s terrible.

I doubt she wanted it deleted. She said a lot of bad stuff about Will Self though...

I notice Will Self is also about to publish a memoir. Interesting timing.

Oh that's so sad about the twitter account.
Her words are her legacy, her thoughts, her opinions.

I hate to think of them vanishing.

She might have wanted her Twitter to come down after she'd gone. It would be difficult for her family to see it still there.

Her Twitter account has been deleted. I understand it probably has to do with her family and privacy but it's sad - there was such a wealth of material there.

I noticed that certain tweets had been deleted yesterday - I suspect whoever was doing it (one of her sons, I'd assume, as mostly they were references to her ex) just decided it was better to take it all down. It is sad; she was so fearlessly don't give a fuck honest in life, it seems wrong somehow in death. But we don't have a right to it, and her family should be allowed privacy in grief.

Let's hope her ex fades into the obscurity he deserves.

Her Twitter account has been deleted. I understand it probably has to do with her family and privacy but it's sad - there was such a wealth of material there.

Deborah's friend Suzanne Moore has written a lovely piece about her in the Guardian today:

"In all her complicated glory she was wild. Untamed. Never not true to herself. “Who among us can say that?” I asked her in the ever-changing light of the big Brighton sky, as the sun glinted on the sea and I saw the small boat out on the horizon."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/22/deborah-orr-true-editor-writer-friend-broke-conventions

I could never bear Will Self. My misogyny alarm always shrieked loudly whenever I came across him.

Our close family friend was one of her best friends. They had a serious fall out about a year ago and it's very sad because, you know, with the passage of time, people fall back in don't they?

Can confirm her ex is a terrible person, have heard lots of stories of his behaviour at dinner parties etc. She was a great woman and I only wish she had got the chance to start that new life in Brighton after all. Will be sorely missed.

Goodnight, Deborah. Thank You.

May your children grow to be as strong and principled as their mother.

Ah Therese. I'm so very sorry.

Therese sorry for your loss.

Bugger. I so hoped she had longer. She was a wonderful writer.

So sorry Therese , she was an incredible woman.
[choc] for Deborah.

So so sorry Therese

My wonderful, beautiful, talented cousin! RIP Deb!

Um. Well. Narcissism, thy name is Self?

It's fascinating that Will Self follows no-one at all on his Twitter a/c

Oh no!

I'd no idea she was ill. When I saw her name at the top of anything, I always knew I was in for a good read.

So sorry to see this.

I'm too sad to really know what to say, other than that she was a wonderful writer and will be missed.

Her relationship with her ex was such a classic case of a man marrying a brilliant woman and then feeling deeply threatened by her to the point where he just couldn't let it go and had to go out of his way to attempt to prove that he was superior. He isn't, though, he's just an arsehole. She was a better writer than him and there's nothing he can do to stop people acknowledging her talent now.

That Strudwick is some prick. Dismissing older women and their lived experience and hard-won wisdom, including his own mother, and calling them that horrible dehumanising slur. His fawning over Deborah now she's dead rings very hollow.

Yeah Patrick Strudwick is odious. But I hope it shows the TRAs that the support from ‘allies’ is very flimsy indeed and their attempts to make not believing that woman is a feeling the new neo-Nazism aren’t working.