(urth) from National Review Online

brunians at brunians.org brunians at brunians.org
Tue Mar 31 10:27:32 PDT 2009


What specifically is a festschrift besides 'a celebration of the writing'
as I translate it from the German? Is there a specialized meaning of the
term that I am unaware of (as I am unaware of most things)?




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> Ah, now that's an even more promising idea, methinks.
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> Perhaps a festschrift would be more appropriate?
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> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Craig Brewer <cnbrewer at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> Since I already live in the neighborhood, I'd be more than willing to
>> attend and help organize if we get enough people thinking it would be a
>> good thing.
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>> I'm fairly sure that Gene Wolfe has all of the household furniture that
>> he
>> needs.
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>> I was thinking more of like a dinner in his honor and perhaps people
>> thanking him for writing all of this great stuff that he has written and
>> maybe other things, the idea being that they are pleasurable things for
>> him and not anything that requires him to do any work or anything
>> besides
>> show up.
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>>> On Mar 31, 2009, at 4:09 AM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
>>>>> Perhaps we should descend upon Barrington bearing tribute....
>>>>> Quite seriously, why don't we get a hotel there sometime around his
>>>>> birthday and throw a big thing for him?
>>>>
>>>> I doubt Mr Wolfe would appreciate having a brawl thrown in his honor.
>>>
>>> I was thinking a sofa, or maybe a fridge.
>>>
>>> Adam
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