Any Spherians going to MLA in Chicago this year? Just thought I'd ask. I'll be there and it would be nice to see some faces of cyber-friends if anyone happens to be attending.

David

David, I'll be performing the other circus, also in Chicago this year. It is called the APA (American Philological Association) from Jan. 3-6.

MLA was fun. I presented a paper on the Palestinian novel Days of Dust by Halim Barakat. The panel I participated in was "The Six-Day War: Forty Years Later" and dealt with literature from that particular conflict. Some interesting perspectives.

What was an added perk was that I got a copy of Alicia's translation of Lucertius for $5.00 (and Fagles translation of The Aeneid for the some price).