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Got plans for 13-15 October 2006?
Perhaps you are wondering why I would be asking about the weekend of 13-15 October. Perhaps you were planning on going to the Cotton Wad Festival at the George Q. Pudlumpkin Greater Midwest Convention Center and Rifle Club. Perhaps you were planning on finishing a jigsaw puzzle. Perhaps you were planning on making cookies or attending your local "Republicans for Voldemort" campaign rally. Maybe you had big plans for the commemoration of the lesser feast of Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereshewsky.
Well, forget it.
As of this moment, your plans are to attend the 31st International Patristics, Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference at Villanova University.
What's that? You're a Modernist?
Bah. Come anyway and plan to wear a beret.
Why?
Because I'm going to go all Medieval. Namely, I'm going to be presenting a paper at the conference.
(Hwæt!)
Yeppers. The ol' sop himself receiveded news today that the paper proposal was accepted. I get to get my comparative Victorine allegorical exegesis on. I am officially a happy monkey.
Though one could just as well say, "Avast! I be a jolly historical pirate! Arrr!" (Judy, Laura, that was all for you. Where my Biblical ninjas at, yo?)
The theme for this year's PMR is "Structure, Space and Meaning: The Walls and Portals of Premodern Worlds." A good title, I think. The only problem is that it violates the first cardinal rule of academic titles. Everything before the colon should be pretty sexy (in that academic kinda way). Well done there. However, everything after the colon should be positively mind numbing for everyone but the five people who specialize in that particular (and often peculiar) field. Case in point, the title of my paper is, "Filling the Temple of the Soul: Spatial Metaphore and Hugonian Influence in Thomas Gallus' Commentary on Isaiah 6."
See, isn't that better?
Believe it or not, this rule has been documented in a highly reputable and singularly authoritative academic source.
By the way, if you come to the conference, I promise that there will be beer simultaneous, coterminous, and coequal with the commemoration of the blessed Bishop Shereschewsky.
Perhaps you are wondering why I would be asking about the weekend of 13-15 October. Perhaps you were planning on going to the Cotton Wad Festival at the George Q. Pudlumpkin Greater Midwest Convention Center and Rifle Club. Perhaps you were planning on finishing a jigsaw puzzle. Perhaps you were planning on making cookies or attending your local "Republicans for Voldemort" campaign rally. Maybe you had big plans for the commemoration of the lesser feast of Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereshewsky.
Well, forget it.
As of this moment, your plans are to attend the 31st International Patristics, Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference at Villanova University.
What's that? You're a Modernist?
Bah. Come anyway and plan to wear a beret.
Why?
Because I'm going to go all Medieval. Namely, I'm going to be presenting a paper at the conference.
(Hwæt!)Yeppers. The ol' sop himself receiveded news today that the paper proposal was accepted. I get to get my comparative Victorine allegorical exegesis on. I am officially a happy monkey.
Though one could just as well say, "Avast! I be a jolly historical pirate! Arrr!" (Judy, Laura, that was all for you. Where my Biblical ninjas at, yo?)
The theme for this year's PMR is "Structure, Space and Meaning: The Walls and Portals of Premodern Worlds." A good title, I think. The only problem is that it violates the first cardinal rule of academic titles. Everything before the colon should be pretty sexy (in that academic kinda way). Well done there. However, everything after the colon should be positively mind numbing for everyone but the five people who specialize in that particular (and often peculiar) field. Case in point, the title of my paper is, "Filling the Temple of the Soul: Spatial Metaphore and Hugonian Influence in Thomas Gallus' Commentary on Isaiah 6."
See, isn't that better?
Believe it or not, this rule has been documented in a highly reputable and singularly authoritative academic source.
By the way, if you come to the conference, I promise that there will be beer simultaneous, coterminous, and coequal with the commemoration of the blessed Bishop Shereschewsky.
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17 June, 2006 16:15"The Walls and Portals of Premodern Worlds." I think that is positively mind numbing for me. Perhaps you are just one of the five people who gets that. Really. I don't think of myself as a modernist, but maybe . . .
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17 June, 2006 16:16
Oh, and congratulations! If you are excited, I am excited.
Ed
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