Comments on: Networking

By: Anarch

Anarch — Fri, 07 May 2004 04:24:26 +0000

Vaguely topic-related, my choir (the University of Wisconsin Madrigal Singers) just performed the Ligeti Lux Aeterna last month. It was surprisingly well-received by both the musicians and non-musicians the audience which (aside from the rush of a good performance) made me optimistic about the human race again.

By: Chris Brooke

Chris Brooke — Thu, 06 May 2004 22:34:54 +0000

Four—John and Belle (in California), Micah (first in France, then in Oxford), Chris (in Oxford and Boston), Adam Swift (my old undergraduate teacher) and Adam’s delightful aunt Helen (in Rome) … (And all bar Chris before CT ever came into existence.)

By: Ophelia Benson

Ophelia Benson — Thu, 06 May 2004 01:50:47 +0000

Harry – Frighteningly erudite? Moi? Nah. Nope, it’s not a recent work. It’s in one of her now more obscure novels, but one of my favorites. I [flouncing a bit] have a signed copy – a battered old Penguin, signed.

By: harry

harry — Thu, 06 May 2004 01:23:34 +0000

But Tamar, Tamar says you know everybody. Just 4 of us? Are you sure? Puts you ahead of most of us I suppose. (I missed Maria, by not looking her up when I was in Paris for 36 hours predicting, rightly, that I’d be too pressed for time to be polite. Sorry Maria). Ophelia, those kinds of comments make you seem frighteningly erudite. I’ve concentrated on the recent works and have to admit that my fandom is post-Adam (i.e. after becoming friends with him, unlike my fandom of another of his close relatives which precedes friendship with him). Is it a recent work? I don’t get the reference but I am motivated to figure it out. I am also, I have to say, not a very literary person, so am highly limited on my Wordsworth. (Better on Larkin).

By: Ophelia Benson

Ophelia Benson — Wed, 05 May 2004 21:59:50 +0000

I knew you were kidding, Harry. Good that you’re a fan, however belatedly. Are you enough of a fan to know where the chickens and the armchair are? In fact, since this thread is really about Wordsworth, despite appearances to the contrary, I’ll just expand on the dear chickens and armchair a bit. On this book tour, during questions after the reading, someone asked about the frogs in the drainpipe, and Adam’s mum said that was a Wordsworthian moment, that she likes Wordsworthian moments, preferably slightly squalid ones. So I asked if the chickens and armchair are a Wordsworthian moment, and she said yes indeed, and it was interesting I asked, because she had brought that section with her to read in case she needed to read something further. So there you have it. The frogs that say Koax koax (not Aristophanes’ frogs) and the chickens and armchair are Wordsworthian moments. It’s good to know these things.

By: Tamar

Tamar — Wed, 05 May 2004 21:14:39 +0000

I’m at four as well: I met Harry when he gave a talk in Ithaca a few years ago; I met Kieran through Laurie in Dean Zimmerman’s backyard in South Bend in 1999(?); Brian and I are past and future colleagues; and I met Eszter in Budapest last month when she was here for a conference.

By: ionfish

ionfish — Wed, 05 May 2004 19:41:25 +0000

I didn’t realise until recently who Chris was – I must admit I was slightly taken aback that one of the authors of the group blog I’d been reading for quite a while was the head of my department (I’m a Philosophy undergrad at Bristol).

By: harry

harry — Wed, 05 May 2004 19:12:39 +0000

I was kidding Ophelia (about warning you to be careful, not about Adam being a reader). Yes, I’m a fan too, but only became one recently (my wife has been a fan for years).

By: Ophelia Benson

Ophelia Benson — Wed, 05 May 2004 18:57:27 +0000

All the better. I don’t need to be careful because I’m a great admirer of Adam’s mum, have been for decades. It’s easy to chat with someone without meeting her – on a book tour, of course. (Well, if you like, I met her, but she didn’t meet me.) Oh and thanks, John, for the info on LB and Bristol. (Adam’s mum is a great fan of Wordsworth’s. So’s his aunt. It all ties up, doesn’t it.)

By: Chris Bertram

Chris Bertram — Wed, 05 May 2004 18:45:38 +0000

Didn’t Jerry supervise Tom Runnacles at some stage? And isn’t D^2’s spouse friends with Jerry’s. So that makes 5 if Daniel has met Jerry.

By: harry

harry — Wed, 05 May 2004 17:55:41 +0000

Adam’s a reader so you’d better be careful what you say about his mum… How could you have chatted with her without meeting her? I’ve not met his mum, but have played cricket with his dad (and met him—its hard to play cricket with people without meeting them), and have also met his brother. I’m not aware of having met Laurie, but may have done. My colleagues Carolina and Juan have met Brian and me, and Laurie, but I’m not sure if they’ve met Keiran. I, too, mysteriously got on the BR mailing list, also presumably through CT. But I think we are missing someone obvious. Jerry C has met Chris, me, and Micah—I bet some other CTers have met him. No?

By: Ophelia Benson

Ophelia Benson — Wed, 05 May 2004 16:54:36 +0000

Has Adam Swift’s mother met any of you? I’ve met Adam Swift’s mother – well not exactly met, but chatted with. Good fun. We shared a particular fondness for the chickens and the armchair.

By: Chris Bertram

Chris Bertram — Wed, 05 May 2004 16:40:43 +0000

Adam Swift has met at least three of us: Micah, Harry and me, and my colleague Paul was at Princeton with Kieran and Eszter. Jerry C is certainly aware of CT, though not a big blog reader.

By: eszter

eszter — Wed, 05 May 2004 16:14:12 +0000

Laura – I won’t take blame for unfinished dissertations. After all, you should find this space inspiring!:-) Plus hey, I finished mine while writing a blog and reading many of them so if anything, it’s probably conducive to finishing a dissertation. (I had to throw that in there with all the logic work that goes on around here…;)

By: eszter

eszter — Wed, 05 May 2004 16:08:38 +0000

I wonder how many of us Laurie has met, Laurie Paul that is. After all, isn’t it partly because of her work and conferences that Kieran is now meeting all the philosophers? And she has met me as well (and obviously Kieran;).