Hail Hrothgar--
No need to remember last year's Kzoo fiascos--the plural would be more
appropriate. It's unlikely anyone will allow you to forget the dates this time
around anyhow--reminders should come to you in waves!! But I am hoping to get
a better program arranged for this Spring, and do a better job organizing. The
respondents for Session II were deadly--and the readers (besides Victor) badly
prepared for time limits. Anyhow, at present I've got just a handful of
abstracts and am hoping the mail will bring us more--many more--soon.
Thank you for agreeing to respond or to do a short paper. Your input, however
you choose to give it, would be a great help. I will send you a packet of
abstracts on the 15th, and use your Montreal address since the mailing should
reach you the very next day.
Victor has been uncharacteristically silent for some time. I will email him
again today to prod him along about Kzoo, and if I hear anything interesting I
promise to let you know.
How is the work on the correspondence coming? The project has got to be
massively time consuming, yes? Have you got a good assistant or two to help?
You must need them. You know, if you think you might like to do it, a report
about your work on the correspondence would be awfully good to have at Kzoo.
Just a thought.
My own writing is going ahead. I've gotten a new essay on tyranny in the
Defence finished at last and off my desk; i'm in the middle of another
piece--smaller, more speculative, somewhat more fun--about Cyrus in the
Defence and what I'm imagining as Sidney's war-of-books with Bodin. Next year
I've got a sabattical due (half year), which taken together with a summer,
should allow me to begin putting all these essays about the Defence together
into something resembling a book. So much for the plan. I'd very much like you
to have a look at this Cyrus essay when it's done, if you'd agree to read it.
It's the sort of essay one worries about because its argument is either
wonderful or mad, and it's not always easy (as author) to tell the difference.
And differences need to be told.
Have you gotten any news about the RSA panel on Monsieur Melanchthon? And,
alas, no I won't make it to Denver, but do hope to get to N'Orleans.
More later. Hope you are happily settled in Montreal, and life is treating you
beautifully--or at least very well. Speaking of life treating one
beautifully, if our mutual friend--the Russian vixen Victoria--is just half as
appealing in life as she is in letters, I may have to consider expatriation.
There's a thought to burn holes in the old pc.
Cheers,
Rob
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>Rabbie lad,
>
>I hardly dare speak about Kzoo any more after this year's fiasco (which,
>remember, means "bottle" in Italian), but beg you nevertheless to remember
>that I am ready to do a response should you so wish it, and might provide a
>lightweight reasonably entertaiing paper should you run short.
>Have you heard from Victor at all? I sent him a card months ago but have not
>had a word in any medium for ages 'n ages.
>Cheers,
>Hrothgar
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>From: rstillma <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Thursday, August 23, 2001 5:18 PM
>Subject: Sidney at Kalamazoo, Call for Papers
>
>
>>August 23, 01
>>
>>Dear Colleagues and Friends,
>>
>>This is just a short reminder that Sidney at Kalamazoo is sponsoring THREE
>>open sessions on Philip Sidney and his circle at this Spring's
>International
>>Medieval Conference at Western Michigan University (May 2-5). Abstracts of
>one
>>to two pages in length, on any and all things Sidneian, should be submitted
>to
>>the address below by September 15th. Please do spread the word to
>interested
>>colleagues and graduate students.
>>
>>Thank you for your assistance.
>>
>>Robert E. Stillman
>>301 McClung Tower
>>English Department
>>University of Tennessee
>>Knoxville, TN 37996
>>
>>FAX: 865 974-6926
>>Email: [log in to unmask]
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