...and let's not even discuss the Sylvia Plath Conference. Ben (with credit to my friend, Ro!) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Mac Donnell" <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 12:17:49 PM Subject: Re: Elmira Twain Conference 2013 At the Kafka Konference the attendees so to sleep in the dorms, but in the morning there's nothing but roaches. Kevin @ Mac Donnell Rare Books 9307 Glenlake Drive Austin TX 78730 512-345-4139 Member: ABAA, ILAB ************************* You may browse our books at www.macdonnellrarebooks.com ----- 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 >> @ >> Mac Donnell Rare Books >> 9307 Glenlake Drive >> Austin TX 78730 >> 512-345-4139 >> Member: ABAA, ILAB >> ************************* >> You may browse our books at >> www.macdonnellrarebooks.com >> >> ----- 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 >>> [log in to unmask] >>> >>> >>> >>> ----- >>> No virus found in this message. >>> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >>> Version: 2013.0.3392 / Virus Database: 3211/6587 - Release Date: >>> 08/18/13 >>> >> >> >> ----- >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 2013.0.3392 / Virus Database: 3211/6587 - Release Date: 08/18/13 >> > > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2013.0.3392 / Virus Database: 3211/6589 - Release Date: 08/19/13 > ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.3392 / Virus Database: 3211/6589 - Release Date: 08/19/13