"When creative people die...."

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I'm reading The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: 13th Annual Collection (stories from 1999), and Jim Frenkel writes in his intro to the obituaries:

When creative people die, they leave a part of their lives with those who remain. In the fruits of their creativity lie the seeds that may bring forth new creative works in generations that follow. Our cultural traditions are built upon the works of genius of preceding generations.

This reminded me of Mike in general, but also because we're seeing a lot of sonnets and sestinas and such in Making Light and he paved the way for those.