Talk About a Shanda

Yoram Kaniuk pauses at the death of Susan Sontag to inform us that "it was easy for her to connect to me," and, furthermore, "I became such a fundamental part of her life that, in our meetings together, I could stir within her the longing for something eternal from which she sprung."

One could make any number of ripostes to that, but frankly, one ought not to get into a tactlessness competition with a clear master of the form.