Sean Gabb has penned an obituary of Chris Tame in the Independent.
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Chris Tame obituary in the IndependentMarch 23rd, 2006 |
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How far would you say Tame’s “long-term agenda of intellectual change” has progressed? And what role do blogs now play in that?
Well done, it’s a well written and considerate
tribute to an unusual person.
But……why no mention of Chris and his
virtual life long admiration of Ayn Rand?
Good question, Paul: that’s the version that make the newspaper; here’s the version for friends:
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc144.htm
Another thing I would like to mention is what a generous fellow Chris has been to so many friends. He took my and others under his “wing”, so to speak, acting as a sort of friendly mentor. I learned more from him — and from Brian Micklethwait, for that matter — than most of my university lecturers. Chris was also a man of great style. When one thinks of most intellectuals in Britain, one pictures a sort of crusty professor type in a tweed jacket. Not Chris. When I first encountered him at the Alternative Bookshop in 1985, he looked like a frontman for a surf guitar group of the early 1960s.
And that really pissed off the tweedy right and the scruffy left. Not only was he cleverer than them, he was miles better looking too.
The number of important friends that have influenced my life I can count on the fingers of one hand. Chris was one of them.
Paul, yes, Chris was a great Rand fan and yet he had no time for the antics of the “official” Objectivist crowd, at least from those who tried to freeze out anyone who dissented, however mildly, with Rand’s views.