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Helen
Registered User
(12/1/03 10:11 am)
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Marina Warner speaking in NY ...
Dear All:
I thought that it might be worth posting a heads-up that Marina Warner is in New York this term as a fellow at Columbia's Italian Academy, and scheduled to speak twice in these next two weeks. I was thrilled and chagrined to discover that she had been here all term when I received a flier for her last talk (on ethereal metaphors - it was wonderful) ... thrilled because it meant that I would be able to hear her speak, chagrined because I had had no idea that she was around! (I also received the flier about an hour before the lecture, hence my lack of a post that time around.) She is, unsurprisingly, a fascinating lecturer. She'll be speaking on these topics:
Phantoms in the Mind’s Eye: Metamorphosis and Contemporary Art
At The Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street
2 December 2003
5.30 pm
and
Vacant Possession
At DIA
West 22nd Street
10 December 2003
6.30 pm
Hope that I'll see some of you there!
Best,
Helen
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Terri
Registered User
(12/2/03 4:17 am)
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Re: Marina Warner speaking in NY ...
Oh, I'm jealous. Wish I could be there! I heard her speak once here in Devon, at Dartington Hall, and she was terrific. I had drinks with her afterwards, because I'd gone to the lecture with my friend Peter Randall-Page, who is a friend of hers -- but I was too tongue-tied to say more than two words. Pathetic.
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janeyolen
Registered User
(12/2/03 6:12 am)
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Re: Marina Warner speaking in NY ...
And she was here at Smith College and no one told me till I read it AFTER in the newspaper, and no one called to ask me to gomto the dinner for her. I was FURIOUS!!!
Jane
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Helen
Registered User
(12/2/03 10:41 am)
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Teehee ...
... this makes me feel a bit less silly about being so excited that I made a fool of myself. I hadn't heard about the last lecture until about an hour before, so I ran like a madwoman to pull myself together (calling friends who've read her work all the while to make sure that no-one who could possibly be there wouldn't) and managed to be the first one there. Nothing like shyly approaching a personal hero in the hopes of making a good first impression only to realize that you're intruding on their prep time ... I think that I managed to garble out something about how much I admired her work before beating a hasty retreat. Hopefully I'll manage to redeem my ignimonious behavior at some point in the future ...
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