IN SEARCH OF MYSTERIOUS SCHOLAR
KEVIN COPE, SCSECS President and Editor of _1650-1850: Ideas,
Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era_ has received
a mysterious communication, the source of which he would like
to track down. The e-mail was apparently sent by a scholar
named Jose L. Lucas Saorin who identifies his university as the
Universidad de Murcia in Spain. The e-mail was, however, not
sent directly to the illustrious Kevin, but to Bob Leitz and
Susan Spencer, high SCSECS officials, who forwarded it from
him. Nor was it sent from Mr. Lucas-Saorin's e-mail address;
rather, the return address is a numberical one at the German
university of Lueneberg that belongs to a certain Olaf Jungbluth.
When contacted, Mr. Jungbluth denied any knowledge either of the
e-mail or of Mr. Lucas-Saorin. While Mr. Lucas-Saorin lists
an e-maila ddress at [log in to unmask], that address appears to
be unreachable from any server; it always bounces e-mails.
Mr. Lucas-Saorin sent Kevin a long paper on the German critic
Winckelmann, written in Spanish but on a German philological
issue. He doesn't say whether he intends this as a journal or
conference submission, but the header to his letter, which
emanated from the elusive Herr Jungbluth, indicates that he is
interested in applying for a conference that happened last year.
This is all very mysterious! If anyone can find a way out of
the labyrinth, I'd like to know, as Senor Lucas-Saorin's paper
seems to be a good one! Cheers, KEVIN Kevin L. Cope
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