Comments on: Maybe Our Fat Chum Chet Could Help!

By: nate

nate — Tue, 29 Jun 2004 02:31:15 +0000

If you do end up going to koh PhiPhi, e-mail me. There are better hotels to stay at than the resort looking hotel in the photos. And yes it is about as close to paradise as you can get.

By: nate

nate — Tue, 29 Jun 2004 02:30:52 +0000

If you do end up going to koh PhiPhi, e-mail me. There are better hotels to stay at than the resort looking hotel in the photos. And yes it is about as close to paradise as you can get.

By: nate

nate — Tue, 29 Jun 2004 02:30:40 +0000

If you do end up going to koh PhiPhi, e-mail me. There are better hotels to stay at than the resort looking hotel in the photos. And yes it is about as close to paradise as you can get.

By: Chris in Boston

Chris in Boston — Mon, 28 Jun 2004 21:22:12 +0000

Are you sure these aren’t notes for Thomas Pynchon’s next book?

By: Mr Ripley

Mr Ripley — Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:28:26 +0000

Compare and contrast the neologisms “to chun” and “to puchalsky.”

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 28 Jun 2004 13:58:39 +0000

When did Chun become an Unavoidable Festschrift?

By: TomD

TomD — Mon, 28 Jun 2004 10:24:47 +0000

Quaerendo Invenietis [1747] is clearly a reference to J.S.Bach’s Musical Offering (date of composition) which contains a puzzle canon with that title – “Seek and ye shall find”. The next bit is about the Augsburg Confession (1530), a fundamental document of Lutheranism. (Bach being, of course, a Lutheran.) “Most Invincible Emperor, Caesar Augustus, Most Clement Lord: Inasmuch as Your Imperial Majesty has summoned a Diet of the Empire here at Augsburg to deliberate concerning measures against the Turk, that most atrocious, hereditary, and ancient enemy of the Christian name and religion, in what way, namely, effectually to withstand his furor and assaults by strong and lasting military provision;” (etc.) (!) “Mus non uni fidit antro” is from Erasmus’ “Adages”: “A mouse does not trust in only one hole”. Curiously, one of the Google hits of this phrase is at the University of Augsburg. http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/ Chronologia/Lspost16/Erasmus/era_ada5.html Etc. etc. etc. It sounds like a cryptic crossword taken to extremes.

By: Adam Kotsko

Adam Kotsko — Mon, 28 Jun 2004 03:39:08 +0000

The following is a tacky breach of commenting etiquette, I know, but I encourage everyone to respond to my CFP for a Festschrift for Chun. Possible topics are listed in the linked post.