(urth) from National Review Online

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes danldo at gmail.com
Tue Mar 31 10:29:27 PDT 2009


A festschrift is a book -- usually of essays -- "presented to" someone
to celebrate their life and work. This is an academic tradition for a
highly-respected colleague.

In the case of Wolfe, it would make sense if it was stories, or a
mixture of stories and essays.

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:27 AM,  <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:
> 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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>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com>
>> To: The Urth Mailing List <urth at lists.urth.net>
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 10:54:46 AM
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>> Perhaps a festschrift would be more appropriate?
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Craig Brewer <cnbrewer at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----
>>> From: "brunians at brunians.org" <brunians at brunians.org>
>>> To: The Urth Mailing List <urth at lists.urth.net>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 10:51:53 AM
>>> Subject: Re: (urth) from National Review Online
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>>> I'm fairly sure that Gene Wolfe has all of the household furniture that
>>> he
>>> needs.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> .
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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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