(incomplete fragments...)
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with Bent Sorensen on all topics (we have time, since we've been
together since 1996), 2003
at the PhD defence with Lars Ole
Sauerberg, SDU Odense; Charles Lock, Copenhagen U; Roy Sellars, SDU
Kolding, and Torben Ditlevsen, Aalborg U;
Dec. 9, 2002
at the PhD annual Ceremony 2003
with Charles Lock and Jacques Derrida on fragments, the chiasmus, and
the right to talk clever stupidities,
Kolding 2001
with Michael Riffaterre on literature, castles, and the desire to hang
all metaphysicians - the latter all his, not mine
Columbia U, 2001
with Mark C. Taylor, on grave matters (standing in front of a print
from Kierkegaard's grave at Mark's house), Williamstown, 2001
with Helena Buescu, on limericks stuffing ourselves with our favourite
food: lamb chops, or as the English would have it:
mutton, Lisbon, 2003 - Very appropriately:
There was an old man of
Tobago,
Who lived on rice, gruel and sago
Till, much to his bliss,
His physician said this —
"To a leg, sir, of mutton you may go."
(Edward Lear's Limericks 1812—1888)
with Andrea Birch, at the opening of a
dress exhibit, Gainesville, Brenau U, 2003
We have a sense
for fashion, so therefore we must think...
with Laszlo Hethelyi, mathematics
professor, at a conference on Shakespeare and philosophy in Budapest,
though discussing not literature but set theory and Riemann's hypothesis,
March 2004
with Lynn Emanuel at the Jewish Museum in Berlin, January 2005
(we must have decided that poetry and history go together)
with my beautiful sister
Mana, on her professorial mastery in playing
poker - well, she's a psychologist, so maybe that explaines it, 2005
with Peter Rudnytsky on the psychology of bathroom habits - Cordoba,
2005
with Esther Sanchez on the great Spanish architects - well, of bags ....
and buildings... Cordoba 2005
with Anthony Johnson on literary theory in math and cosmology, Oulu,
Finland, 2005
with Nicholas Rand, at the
Dream-Writing conference in Canterbury, 2005 - speaking Hungarian (to
bits and pieces)
with Gilles Mathis on the
oxymoron - quite befittingly in front of the flamboyant/gothic/baroque
cathedral in
Rouen 2005
with Andrew Gordon on narratives of age,
and becoming... U of Florida 2006
with Norman & Jane Holland, and Bent on
alligators and narratives of disorders. But there was space for
discussing flowers, as Norm, very orderly, brought a Camelia flower for
me.
with the Romanian Ambassador in
Copenhagen, Theodor Paleologu,
who is also a Carl Schmitt scholar,
with Bent and Søren Hattesen Balle,
an Ashbery scholar, with whom we travel together to all conferences.
Hence the self-label: The Three Musketeers (except for the signature;
ours is the Samsonite), Karlstad 2006
with the erudite poet Robert Gibbons
and his beautiful wife, Kathleen, who also knows interesting things
about transcendence;
making circles at the poetry
conference in Stirling, 2006
with Evie Shockley, who is also a
wonderful poet; painting the sea red...
with Paulo Alexandre Pereira &
António Manuel Ferreira on round fragments,
with Norman Holland and the Don, Lisbon, 2008
with Andrew Gordon in Rome, 2009
with Rainer Kaus, Bent Sørensen, and Marlene
Stevens, Viterbo 2009
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