UD‘s friend James sends her this article from the Chicago Tribune about Steve Diedrich, who for years organized Ulysses readings in that city.
He was too sick, with non-Hodgkins lymphoma, to take part this year. He died a few days after the reading.
When June 16 arrived this year, he was in the hospital. He insisted that the Bloomsday reading at the Cliff Dwellers Club downtown go on without him. His friends sent him a videotape.
Two days later, he lost consciousness, but not before he videotaped a reply, mustering a smile and the words “Thank you.”