....yeah, we all came back with a really bad cough from the last Stephen 
Crane event around here, too.
Wish we could have a Twain meeting in Heidelberg or Baden-Baden for a 
change -

best,
Wolfgang

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hochbruck
Dept. of English
Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg
D-79098 Freiburg
Germany


Am 18.08.2013 23:36, schrieb Kevin Mac Donnell:
> Well, it's no wonder we have good attendance at the Mark Twain Conference.
> At the end we all sing and smoke cigars (but we don't inhale) and then we
> light out for the territories for four years.
>
> At the Melville Conference they all get tangled in the ropes during the
> harpoon-throwing contest (and unless you know some pretty fancy moves you
> don't want to be the fattest white guy there). At the Virginia Woolf
> Conference they all wade out into a river, and they don't all come back.
> It's much worse if you're an attendee at the Hart Crane Conference --they
> take a cruise but the ship returns to port empty. At the Frank Norris
> Conference they head off into the desert with handcuffs, which sounds like
> fun, but isn't. I've heard the Salinger Conferences can get edgy; what a
> bunch of fakes! And after that last bar fight I flat out stopped going to
> the Christopher Marlowe Conferences.
>
> Twainians are such a friendly bunch.
>
> Kevin
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