No one wants to read this randomer’s tribute to David Bowie, so I’m not going to write one.

But I did begin a letter to Bowie himself. On Sunday, I decided to write to him in the form of a submission to The Letters Page. After all, the world needed to know that I obsessively sketched his image from album covers, and it definitely needed to hear highlights from my scrapbook. The deadline was only a week or so away, but I went to bed feeling quite pleased with my progress, and looking forward to working on it the next day.

I woke to the news of his death. Uncanny. But then, I wouldn’t have expected anything less.