Clearly I need to be careful about even alluding tangentially to the very
existence of The Curse Of Electric Halibut, since my doing so in the last book review has almost immediately resulted (with a bit of time-travel involved, admittedly) in my learning of the death of
Jennifer Johnston, novelist, playwright and specifically for the purposes of this list author of
The Illusionist, which I read back in July 2012 and mentioned in passing much more recently in my post about
The Prestige.
You will notice that I didn't mention her in any of the
various posts where I break my supposed rule regarding not speculating luridly about future deaths; I think my mental picture of the author of
The Illusionist would have been of someone quite a bit younger than the 65 that she was at the time. Anyway, she was 95 when she died, which makes her the oldest curse victim, beating by around ten months a record held since relatively recently by
Milan Kundera.
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