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He was at DragonCon (a huge sci-fi/fantasty convention in Atlanta) last year and acting a bit “off”- he was thrown for a loop by some fairly simple questions about some of his works. I’m wondering if this was the disease presenting then.
Paricularly bad is that he has a 7 year old daughter to raise and provide for.
If you haven’t seen him accept the Bafta in Cardiff over the weekend, here’s the clip. He did a visual joke and a brief spontaneous spoken acknowledgement.
It was Palin who, fittingly, presented him with the award.
He is. I’ve read a couple of very good books by him, one on Chaucer’s Knight and another called Who Murdered Chaucer: A Medieval Mystery. It’s tragic that such a fine brain should be laid waste by the ravages of disease.
My professor of Medieval English once said that the Monty Python troupe “knew their medieval”, and Terry Jones was why.
Damnit all.
Good update by the Guardian. His disease is a little different from what I first pictured…very ugly as it is, a lot of his cognitive abilities are still intact.
Having read the print version (actually in The Observer rather than the Grauniad, but an easy mistake to make online), I’d agree that this is the major update. Hardly Terry, but fairly positive given an inevitable ongoing decline.
Good that Mr. Snivelling Little Rat Faced Git still seems to be making a good go of it (well, up to Apr. 2017 so far) and that Micheal Palin and him seem like BBFs.
Hahahahaha. Did make me laugh, that would have been so confusing.