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From: Athel Cornish-Bowden <me@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Noam Chomsky born (7/12/1928)
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2024 18:11:22 +0100
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On 2024-12-08 10:02:50 +0000, Ross Clark said:

> Apparently he has been living in Brazil since last year.
> (His second wife is Brazilian.)
> 
> "In 2023, Chomsky suffered a massive stroke and was flown to a hospital 
> in São Paulo, Brazil, to recuperate. He can no longer walk or 
> communicate, making his return to public life improbable, but he 
> continues to follow current events such as the Israel–Hamas war. He was 
> discharged in June 2024 to continue his recovery at home. The same 
> month, Chomsky trended on social media amid false reports of his death. 
> Periodicals retracted premature obituaries."
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky
> (where there is much more)

I met Chomsky once, if you can call it that. I was staying for two 
weeks in the Certosa di Pontignano for a collaboration with someone in 
Siena. For the first week I was alone, and for dinner they seated me at 
a large table by myself. For the second week my wife and dughter joined 
me, and we sat at the same table. There was a linguistics conference 
arranged at the Certosa for a couple of days. During dinner an elderly 
man arrived and was put at the other end of the same table. Our 
conversation didn't extend beyond things like "Would you be kind enough 
to pass the salt, please." He left before we did, and someone sitting 
at one of the smaller tables where they put the rank and file at the 
conference said "Do you know who that was?" After I said no he said it 
was Chomsky. I'm not sure what I might have said to him if I'd known 
who he was.

-- 
Athel -- French and British, living in Marseilles for 37 years; mainly 
in England until 1987.