According to his wikipedia page he suffered a stroke last year and is convalescing in Brazil with his wife. At 95 it is obvious he will die at some stage soon but the stroke has left him unable to communicate or take any part in his usual reasonable caustic but always incisive commentary on world events.
For a man who has written extensively on language and who knows how to use words to accurate effect it must be extremely hard not to be able to communicate. In fact as this will be the end of his life now, it must be worse than dying. I cannot but think he is in some kind of prison. For an active mind – and his mind is still there – it must be a kind of hell.
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