....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 > @ > Mac Donnell Rare Books > 9307 Glenlake Drive > Austin TX 78730 > 512-345-4139 > Member: ABAA, ILAB > ************************* >