[LEN-E] Leni died of cancer?

[Ron Koster]

At 06:33 PM 10/9/2007 +0200, Thomas Köhler wrote:

>I'm pretty sure this information is correct, I 

>read them same in obituaries published here in 

>Germany. I think she suffered from cancer for 

>almost a year before her death, I'm not really 

>sure anymore, but think it might have been lung cancer.


Ah, okay -- I guess our replies (i.e. your reply 
to me, and my reply to myself) must have crossed at the same time. ;)

I still find it quite curious, though, that Bach 
says that the "official" cause of her death was 
cancer, and that she'd had a operation (or, at 
least, been "opened up"), but he doesn't provide 
a source for stating something so definitively -- 
and yet he provides so many sources for so many other statements.

As I said earlier, this is one of the things I 
find so troubling about Bach's book. It seems 
almost as though his method (and goal) is to 
provide a voluminous amount of verifiable 
references for so many things which we do know to 
be true, and in the process he can then throw in 
the odd opinion (presented as "fact") which 
nobody will then question (because he has so many 
references). And perhaps, in the above case, the 
"official" cause of Leni's death really was 
indeed cancer -- but then why not provide an 
"official" reference for making what is, indeed, 
such a *definitive* statement (when so many 
references are given for far less important things)?

It just makes me wonder, that is, Bach makes me 
wonder -- and not about Leni so much (there's 
hardly anything that I've read so far in his book 
that I didn't already know before from other 
sources) but, rather, Bach makes me wonder about Bach, himself.

Ron 8!

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