At the Kafka Konference the attendees so to sleep in the dorms, but in the
morning there's nothing but roaches.
Kevin
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Dawidziak" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: Elmira Twain Conference 2013
> Or . . .
> The B. Traven Conference, where nobody knows the true identity of
> the other attendees.
> Or . . .
> The Anton Chekhov Conference, where everybody stays home, talking
> about how everything would be all right if we could only get to Moscow,
> where the conference is being held.
> Or. . .
> The William Makepeace Thackeray Conference, where everybody sits
> around, complaining about why the Charles Dickens Conference has far
> more attendees.
> Or. . .
> The Arthur Conan Doyle Conference, where attendees announce the
> conclusion of papers before the speakers have finished.
>
> On 8/19/2013 10:28 AM, Ben Wise wrote:
>> I prefer the Emily Dickinson conference where everyone stays home.
>>
>> Ben
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Kevin Mac Donnell" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2013 5:36:37 PM
>> Subject: Re: Elmira Twain Conference 2013
>>
>> 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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>> Mac Donnell Rare Books
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>> Austin TX 78730
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "John Bird" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2013 2:52 PM
>> Subject: Re: Elmira Twain Conference 2013
>>
>>
>>> I am late chiming in on the success of the Seventh Quadrennial =
>>> International Conference on Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College a few =
>>> weeks ago. I have now been to all seven, and it does seem that it just =
>>> gets better and better. When I introduced the Hal Holbrook documentary,
>>> =
>>> I asked how many people were there for the first time, and over half the
>>> =
>>> people raised their hands. I was really happy to see so many new folks,
>>> =
>>> as well as to renew old friendships. The Cigar Ritual at the end was =
>>> lively and moving, with raucous but heartfelt group singing, heavy on =
>>> spirituals and camp songs. Fitting for what Tracy Wuster calls =
>>> =E2=80=9CMark Twain Summer Camp.=E2=80=9D I look forward to the next =
>>> one. Hats off to Barb Snedecor and her crew! As Bruce Michelson said =
>>> when he won the Louis J. Budd Certificate of Merit from the Mark Twain =
>>> Circle of America, we certainly must have the most congenial author =
>>> group on the planet!
>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>> John Bird
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>>>
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