(urth) from National Review Online

brunians at brunians.org brunians at brunians.org
Tue Mar 31 10:38:13 PDT 2009


I like Jerry Friedman's take on this....


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> 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)?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> .
>>
>>> Ah, now that's an even more promising idea, methinks.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----
>>> From: Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com>
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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
>>>>
>>>> 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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