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Remembering Peter Hare (1935-2008)

John Corcoran, Alexander Razin and Tim Madigan pay tribute to their friend.

Although Peter and I had a frequent email correspondence up until a week or so before he died, our last face-to-face meeting took place almost two months earlier, in Buffalo, on November 12, 2007. It was the last of several raucous evenings the two of us shared over the more than 35 years of our friendship. The evening started with the two of us having drinks in my dimly-lit second floor study looking westward over a lovely Buffalo snowscape as the sunset faded. There he gave me his latest insights into one of Gertrude Stein’s poems, which he saw as extolling the aesthetics of symbolic logic. As I had done more than once before, I urged him to get it into print before he got scooped.

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