Greetings from the Donne Conference, now at LSU - USM Forum -- Message Board

Date: Feb 17, 2006

Greetings from the Donne Conference, now at LSU

Date: Feb 17, 2006

Our best regards to GS and MAS!

Date: Feb 17, 2006

LVN wrote:

Our best regards to GS and MAS!

Ditto!

Date: Feb 18, 2006

Here in Hattiesburg we prefer John Deere rather than John Donne.

Date: Feb 19, 2006

Greetings from the farm said: "Here in Hattiesburg we prefer John Deere rather than John Donne."

We presume that is because something is needed to handle all the bulls--- produced by some people in that city.

Date: Feb 19, 2006

Now that we've had the excremental moment, I have an added comment for which we'll need to move our minds to higher planes.

As if to underscore Donne's continued importance to literature in English, the National Portrait Gallery in London is willing to pay 1.65 million pounds (= nearly $3 million) to acquire Donne's most famous portrait.

There was a beautiful color reproduction of this portrait circulated at the conference. None of the images I've googled do it justice, but the one at luminarium.org is definitely among the better ones.

JL

Date: Feb 20, 2006

The moment may have appeared excremental to some but in reality it was trying to show the nature of those who appeared to be disparaging (or making light of) the conference on John Donne. Sorry if the meaning was missed, by me or others; looks like it was a poor job of getting the point across. I thought the discussion on the Donne Conference was been taken to a lower level. It becomes more obvious that we don't all think alike, and that offends a lot of us (including me). Looks like we humans have to try really hard to tolerate another's thoughts. No wonder there is so much turmoil everywhere. Those in power, or wanting to be in power, demand we think like they do.

Date: Feb 20, 2006

another farmer wrote:

The moment may have appeared excremental to some but in reality it was trying to show the nature of those who appeared to be disparaging (or making light of) the conference on John Donne. Sorry if the meaning was missed, by me or others; looks like it was a poor job of getting the point across. I thought the discussion on the Donne Conference was been taken to a lower level. It becomes more obvious that we don't all think alike, and that offends a lot of us (including me). Looks like we humans have to try really hard to tolerate another's thoughts. No wonder there is so much turmoil everywhere. Those in power, or wanting to be in power, demand we think like they do.

My bad, AF, if I seemed to disparage your appropriately humorous post. I was just trying to avoid some wag's equating what I wanted to post with a pile of manure. 'Glad you like Donne!

Cheers,

JL