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  • R.I.P. Marian Parry, =?UTF-8?B?MTAwPyAoaWxsdXM6ICJUaGUgU3BhY2UgQ2hpbGQn

    From Lenona@21:1/5 to All on Mon Aug 5 17:52:10 2024
    This matches with both Radaris and the street address I had for her in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

    https://veripages.com/profile/Marian-Feld/CHHQFCDB

    But, again, there's no death date!

    (I THINK I saw some site that said she made it to 100...)

    Her husband's name was Maury Feld. He was a librarian who died in 2005.

    https://www.un-gyvelimitedgroup.com/releases/marian-parry-and-the-atelier
    (about her work, from 2016)

    "The Space Child's Mother Goose" was written by Frederick Winsor
    (1900-1958), an MIT architect.

    https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/winsor_frederick

    "US architect, anthologist and poet, the main author of The White House
    at Pooh Corner (performed 1938; 1938 chap) with Richard H Field, a
    mildly Satirical spoof play in verse on Politics in the years
    approaching World War Two. He is best known for the witty sf Parody
    Poetry assembled as The Space Child's Mother Goose (coll 1958 chap), the
    most sustained poem being a version of 'This is the House that Jack
    Built' in which Cybernetics is evoked to demolish what looks very much
    like an edifice of Scientific Errors."


    What I posted in February:


    http://www.google.com/search?q=%22marian+parry%22+books&tbm=isch&hl=en&gbv=2&oq=%22marian+parry%22+books&gs_l=img.3...2331.2958.0.3143.6.1.0.5.0.0.60.60.1.1.0....0...1ac.1.34.img..6.0.0.3LhbKIlE9tM
    (book covers)

    https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=7c657d381c876d41&hl=en&gbv=2&q=The+Space+Child%27s+Mother+Goose&tbm=isch&source=lnms&prmd=isvhnbmt&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjKppKptZeEAxWdpokEHfqNDP8Q0pQJegQIDRAB&biw=1920&bih=925&dpr=1
    (illustrations from "The Space Child's Mother Goose")

    http://www.google.com/search?q=The+Space+Child%27s+Mother+Goose+&hl=en&gbv=2&oq=The+Space+Child%27s+Mother+Goose+&gs_l=heirloom-serp.3..0j0i30l2.10784.14592.0.14781.4.4.0.0.0.0.118.252.2j1.3.0....0...1ac.1.34.heirloom-serp..1.3.252.a4cs2sMw_N4
    (more on that book)

    WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:

    * I Am a Big Help, Greenwillow Books (New York, NY), 1980.
    * (With Frederick Winsor) The Space Child's Mother Goose, Purple House
    Press (Keller, TX), 2001.

    Self-illustrated:

    * Die Vogel (children's book) Pharos Verlag (Basel), 1967, translation
    by the author published as The Birds of Basel, Knopf, 1969.
    * Roger and the Divil, Knopf, 1972.
    * King of the Fish, Macmillan, 1977.

    Illustrator:

    * Frederick Winsor, Space Child's Mother Goose, Simon & Schuster, 1958.
    * Aristophanes, Birds, Limited Editions and Heritage Press, 1959.
    * Exercises in Perspective (illustrations without text), Hinckley &
    Brohel, 1965.
    * City Mouse-Country Mouse and Two More Mouse Tales from Aesop,
    Scholastic Book Services, 1970.
    * Betty Levin, The Zoo Conspiracy, Hastings House, 1973.
    * Mirra Ginsberg, The Lazies, Macmillan, 1973.
    * Charlotte Pomerantz, The Ballad of the Long-Tailed Rat, Macmillan,
    1975.
    * Jagna Zahl, More Bad Luck, Branden Press, 1975.
    * Marilyn Singer, The Fanatic's Ecstatic Aromatic Guide to Onions,
    Garlic, Shallots, and Leeks, Prentice-Hall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ), 1981.
    * Charles W. Pratt, Fables in Two Languages and Similar Diversions
    (poems), Pomme Press (Brentwood, NH), 1994.

    "Illustrations have been published in Atlantic, Scientific American,
    Gourmet, Charm, Audience, and other magazines, and poems in Atlantic,
    Antioch Review, Carleton Miscellany, Voices, and Approach."

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  • From Don@21:1/5 to Lenona on Tue Aug 6 13:34:30 2024
    Lenona wrote:
    This matches with both Radaris and the street address I had for her in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

    https://veripages.com/profile/Marian-Feld/CHHQFCDB

    But, again, there's no death date!

    (I THINK I saw some site that said she made it to 100...)

    Her husband's name was Maury Feld. He was a librarian who died in 2005.

    https://www.un-gyvelimitedgroup.com/releases/marian-parry-and-the-atelier (about her work, from 2016)

    "The Space Child's Mother Goose" was written by Frederick Winsor
    (1900-1958), an MIT architect.

    https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/winsor_frederick

    "US architect, anthologist and poet, the main author of The White House
    at Pooh Corner (performed 1938; 1938 chap) with Richard H Field, a
    mildly Satirical spoof play in verse on Politics in the years
    approaching World War Two. He is best known for the witty sf Parody
    Poetry assembled as The Space Child's Mother Goose (coll 1958 chap), the
    most sustained poem being a version of 'This is the House that Jack
    Built' in which Cybernetics is evoked to demolish what looks very much
    like an edifice of Scientific Errors."

    <snip>

    FWIW Poem 30 in my printed book opens with "This is the Theory Jack
    built."

    The coda in my book is shown below - slightly adulterated to fit my
    agenda. Purists who are stumped by my adulteration can "just google
    it." There's a good chance disinformation site Wikipedia contains a
    correct version, too. YMMV.

    This is the Space-Child with Brow Serene
    Who pushed the Button to start the Machine
    That made with the Cybernetics and Stuff
    Without Confusion, exposing the Bluff
    That hung on the Turn of a Plausible Phrase
    And, Shredding the Erudite Verbal Haze
    Cloaking Constant K,
    Wrecked the Summary
    Based on the Mummery
    Hiding the Flaw
    And Demolished the Theory [Frank] built.

    Poem 33 is a favorite:

    The Colloid and the Crystalloid
    Were fighting just in jest
    The Colloid called the Crystalloid
    A Pseudo-Anapest

    Some called them physical
    And some thought them chemic-
    And some said the whole affair
    Was slightly academic.

    Danke,

    --
    Don.......My cat's )\._.,--....,'``. https://crcomp.net/reviews.php telltale tall tail /, _.. \ _\ (`._ ,. Walk humbly with thy God.
    tells tall tales.. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' Make 1984 fiction again.

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  • From Lenona@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 15 16:36:30 2024
    Mistake - one site said she died in March of 2021, aged 97.

    Another site, Truthfinder, seems to back it up pretty well. That is, it
    said her age was 97, and it agrees with Radaris that she lived in
    Cambridge, Seattle and Houston. Most importantly, it lists her husband's
    name - Maury Feld - and the names Laura and Andrew, which match her
    children's names.

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  • From Lenona@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 15 17:44:17 2024
    Specifically, it was Truepeoplesearch.

    (Why do so many OTHER sites not list death dates?)

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