(urth) from National Review Online

Jeff Wilson jwilson at io.com
Tue Mar 31 11:37:41 PDT 2009


brunians at brunians.org wrote:
>> brunians at brunians.org wrote:
> 
>>>>> Wolfe: "I think he mellowed a little too much at the end…
>>>>> He wasn't as sharp-edged as he really should have been. Perhaps the
>>>>> same thing will happen to me.
> 
>>>> The man is in his 80s.
> 
>>> Next year he is 80.
> 
>> Most sources I can locate list his birthday as May 7, 1931.
> 
>>> 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.
> 
> Oh, I m sure we would all be on our best behavior. If you don't feel that
> you can control yourself, by all means, stay away.
> 
> I've done this kind of thing before, it can work out well.

It's not me I'm worried about, but I can all too easily envision some 
heated discussions and spilled drinks leading to an exchange of 
assaults, both real and imagined.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >



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